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Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026

Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026. A rock-and-ice avalanche broke away that day from the northern slope of Langtang Lirung and turned into a debris flow,

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A Little Pug in an Enormous Red Armchair, Thomas Theodor Heine, 1902

A tiny, touching pug puppy is literally drowning in a sumptuous velvet armchair of a rich scarlet. Heine was a master of German Jugendstil and one of the founders of the legendary satirical magazine Simplicissimus; he was born in Leipzig in 1867, received a classical education at the Düsseldorf Academy

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Lyudmila Gurchenko with a falcon in one of Moscow's apple orchards, 1991

Photo by Igor Gnevashev

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When Did Human Ancestors Stop Regularly Moving Through the Trees?

Researchers have compared the strength of the arm and leg bones in two fossil human ancestors and suggest that it is possible to determine when our ancestors ceased to travel regularly through the trees. The first skeleton belongs to an individual australopithecine known as Little Foot. Australopithecines are a genus

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A group of scholars from Spanish universities has studied the origins of Iberian viticulture through DNA from archaeological seeds and suggests that it appeared long before the arrival of the Romans

For a long time it was believed that the wine industry of Spain traces its descent to the Roman conquest of Iberia, which began in the 3rd century BC. The importance of viticulture to the Romans is well known, and the vine followed them everywhere. A new study shows that

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Continuing our reading on plague among the hunter-gatherers of the Baikal region 5,500 years ago

Continuing our reading on plague among the hunter-gatherers of the Baikal region 5,500 years ago. An international team has studied ancient DNA from human remains at four burial grounds in the Lake Baikal area and, by sequencing genetic material preserved in teeth, has reconstructed bacterial genomes and identified

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A Feather Found in the Fossilised Dung of a Large Dinosaur Dating from 66 Million Years Ago

David DeMar of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington found the specimen in 2016 in north-eastern Montana, while collecting fossil fish. He picked up a dark reddish-brown nodule about half the size of a golf ball, examined its surface through a hand lens and saw a

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This melon seed is more than 1,000 years old, and its DNA proves that melons reached China from South Asia

Melon seeds found during the 2024 excavations at the submerged medieval port of Shomen Gugan, in the present-day city of Wenzhou in south-eastern China, have preserved their DNA thanks to airtight, waterlogged sediments. Four seeds were found in all. Two of them contained enough genetic material for sequencing,

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Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly

Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly. In the digest, for my part, I try to gather what has been published over the month while the memories are still fresh. So, the main things on the channel for August. The section on archaeology

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Dear Crocodile, We Need You Very Much

Dear Crocodile, we need you very much. We have a little river. Next to it there is a big chemical factory. It is spoiling the river, and soon there will be no river, only one big inkwell. We are writing to you because you are held in great esteem. Come

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The physiologist Ivan Pavlov with his colleagues and students of the Military Medical Academy before a demonstration of experiments on the transmission of conditioned reflexes

Professor Georgy Konradi recalled that Ivan Petrovich had quite literally grown into one with the dog as an object of study, and that when demonstrating a frog to an audience he regularly slipped and called it a dog. But the atmosphere of the laboratories was described in most detail by

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Kazakhstan Is Restoring the Tiger Population Lost at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

I have already told in detail how the last Turan tiger of the Great Steppe was killed by hunters in the last century. In 2025 I wrote that the actual release of tigers into the wild of Kazakhstan was still a long way off, and now it has come to