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A California homeowner was checking the crawl space beneath his house and discovered the remains of a 29-year-old woman killed in 2006; years later, police arrested her ex-husband

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A California homeowner was checking the crawl space beneath his house and discovered the remains of a 29-year-old woman killed in 2006; years later, police arrested her ex-husband

Jill Maiorca / A residential street in Big Bear Lake, California, near the Forest Road property where human remains were discovered in 2020 (SFGATE) A California homeowner checking the crawl space beneath his house made a disturbing discovery in October 2020 when authorities found unidentified human remains hidden beneath the property in Big Bear Lake. … Read more

Nearly 20 years after Dreyer’s Ice Cream CEO T. Gary Rogers bought 151 acres in Napa, his family discovered an 1887 winery hidden on the property; they planted vineyards, built a home, and the estate now asks $35 million

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Nearly 20 years after Dreyer’s Ice Cream CEO T. Gary Rogers bought 151 acres in Napa, his family discovered an 1887 winery hidden on the property; they planted vineyards, built a home, and the estate now asks $35 million

A vineyard property in Napa Valley, featuring an 1887 winery that Ellen DeGeneres once had her eyes on, is on the market. The 151-acre property in St Helena, California, is listed for $35 million, according to a report by Mansion Global. The seller is artist Matt Rogers, the son of the late T. Gary Rogers, … Read more

In 1990, mining stopped at a 55-metre-deep Swedish limestone quarry; a year later, an opera singer discovered its remarkable natural sound, and it became Dalhalla, now drawing 100,000+ visitors each summer

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In 1990, mining stopped at a 55-metre-deep Swedish limestone quarry; a year later, an opera singer discovered its remarkable natural sound, and it became Dalhalla, now drawing 100,000+ visitors each summer

55-meters-deep Swedish limestone quarry When mining stopped at an isolated limestone quarry in central Sweden in 1990, the local area was left with a 55-metre-deep industrial pit cut into the pine forests outside Rättvik. Just a year later, a former opera singer discovered that the abandoned quarry had remarkable natural acoustics. Today, the former mining … Read more

In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 years later, scientists have shown it can work with the field in-plane

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In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 years later, scientists have shown it can work with the field in-plane

An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists that demonstrates a new form of the Hall effect. For more than a century, the Hall effect has been taught with a simple picture that electricity flows through a material, a magnetic field pushes the moving charges sideways, and a voltage … Read more

A ‘devil flower’ with no leaves, no branches, no green part has been discovered in a Thai forest, scientists say its bizarre appearance is hiding an even stranger secret

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A ‘devil flower’ with no leaves, no branches, no green part has been discovered in a Thai forest, scientists say its bizarre appearance is hiding an even stranger secret

It has no leaves, no branches and no green parts, and spends much of its life concealed beneath fallen leaves on the forest floor. Scientists have now described a bizarre new flowering plant from Thailand, naming it Thismia daemona, the “devil flower”, for its dark, horn-like appearance. Details of the discovery were reported by Pensoft … Read more

‘Dracarys’: New ‘dragon’ species named after House of the Dragon’s Syrax discovered in Thailand

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‘Dracarys’: New ‘dragon’ species named after House of the Dragon’s Syrax discovered in Thailand

Image(s): Left/ HBO/Right/Walailak University, Nakhon Sithammarat, Thailand A newly described mountain horned dragon from western Thailand has given the world a species name with a fantasy-inspired twist. Researchers have named the small, spiny lizard Acanthosaura syrax, after Syrax, the dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon. The animal was found … Read more

Oldest evidence of life on Earth has been discovered in India: A 3.4 billion-year-old layered rock shows signs of microbial life

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Oldest evidence of life on Earth has been discovered in India: A 3.4 billion-year-old layered rock shows signs of microbial life

Evidence of the oldest life on Earth has been discovered in India. In recent scientific findings in eastern India, biological traces buried for almost 3.5 billion years were revealed. The revelation suggests a much more distant and organic origin for the planet.The samples were taken from the Singhbhum geological block, which preserves cellular remains trapped … Read more

In 1998, Nasa sent a rose into space and discovered that microgravity could change its scent

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In 1998, Nasa sent a rose into space and discovered that microgravity could change its scent

A small rose plant spent nine days travelling around Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. It was not there simply as a botanical curiosity. The flower, ‘Overnight Scentsation’, had been selected for an experiment that asked a surprisingly specific question: would a rose smell the same without Earth’s gravity? When the shuttle returned, the … Read more

Archeologists discovered 7,000-year-old Neolithic burial grounds in France using electrical surveys

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Archeologists discovered 7,000-year-old Neolithic burial grounds in France using electrical surveys

Coëby contains numerous megalithic monuments. Image Credit: Wikimedia commons Archaeologists investigating a Neolithic cemetery in Brittany, France, may have uncovered clues to a burial tradition that dates back around 7,000 years. At the Coëby Neolithic cemetery near Trédion, researchers examined two unusually large, elongated earth mounds whose purpose has remained uncertain since the site was … Read more

2,300-year-old beer, well preserved inside an ancient bronze bottle containing nearly a gallon of liquid with more than 2,400 chemical compounds, was discovered by archaeologists

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2,300-year-old beer, well preserved inside an ancient bronze bottle containing nearly a gallon of liquid with more than 2,400 chemical compounds, was discovered by archaeologists

Archaeologists in China have uncovered an extraordinary alcoholic drink that remained remarkably well preserved for more than 2,000 years inside an ancient bronze bottle. The vessel, recovered from a Qin-period tomb at the Shanjiabao cemetery in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, contained about 3.74 litres of pale blue-green liquid, equivalent to nearly a gallon. Scientific … Read more