Top man-made ecological disasters
10 worst man-made disasters
Chernobyl, Russia: Nuclear power plant explosion
What has come to be acknowledged as the worst ever nuclear power plant accident in history, happened on the 26th of April in 1986 when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant, [...]
Is this UK’s oldest home?
Very Original Features: Is This UK’s Oldest Home? Lake views, period details _ archaeologists uncover UK’s oldest home built 11,000 years ago.
Archaeologists have uncovered the site of Britain’s oldest house, the waterside [...]
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks
Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico’s barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks.
The Gulf is lined with wooden shipwrecks, American-Indian shell midden mounds, World [...]
How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus
On the night of Feb. 20, the full moon will pass into Earth’s shadow in an event that will be visible across all of the United States and Canada. The total lunar eclipse will be made even more striking by the presence of the nearby planet [...]
Concern over plans to downgrade Indian national park
The authorities in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are under pressure to declassify a national park because much of its rare bird life is believed to have been lost forever. Locals eager to have free use of the land complain the park’s [...]
Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth
Name: Khoma. Looks like: A baby mammoth. Age: somewhere above 50,000 years. Discovered in the permafrost of northern Siberia just last year, this rare example of prehistoric monster is on its way to Paris to be analysed, treated for the germs [...]
Genius of Britain: Series
Britain may only be a small island, but its great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world: from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the world-wide web to the discovery of the theory of evolution and the [...]
Telegraphs Ran on Electric Air in Crazy 1859
On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operators’ lines were overflowing with current, so they unplugged the batteries connected to their machines, and kept working using just the electricity [...]
Buzz off, Harry Potter – we need reinventing
Hogwarts is a malign influence; we should be fostering a culture of science, not fantasy, says the inventor James Dyson.
Sir James Dyson is beautifully designed. Tall and lean, with architecturally important shoulders, the vacuum cleaner multi-millionaire [...]
Scientist re-creates Turin Shroud to show it’s fake
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Scientist re-creates Shroud of Turin to support his belief it is a medieval fake
Many Christians have believed shroud is actual burial shroud of Jesus
Luigi Garlaschelli made copy by wrapping cloth over student, baking and [...]
