Fossils of rudist bivalves such as this one (Vaccinites) discovered in the United Arab Emirates’ Al-Hajar Mountains, provide valuable insight into the late Cretaceous. When dinosaurs still left fresh footprints on the mud, our planet twirled around faster than it…
Concealing the saint’s remains likely prevented them from being destroyed during the Reformation. Archaeologists have identified the bones of one England’s earliest saints. The remains were found hidden behind a church wall in the southern part of the country. Her…
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This radio image shows two jets shooting out of the center of Cygnus A, a galaxy not too far from our own. A new paper reports discovering a similar object in a much more distant, ancient galaxy. That galaxy has…
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A rare first edition of Isaac Newton’s “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). A rare first edition of Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking book on the three laws of motion, the text that built the foundation for modern physics,…