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Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...

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Kosmos 482 crashed into Earth on May 10 ... GMT or 9:24 am Moscow time), 560 km west of Middle Andaman Island in the Indian Ocean. The 53-year-old Cold War-era Soviet spaceship, initially bound ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

“The majority of forests that have been surveyed are what we call over-mature — there are no young trees, there are no ...

The intricately carved rock pieces were recovered during dredging for the water metro project near the iconic Chinese fishing ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...