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Archaeology · Science · Nature

Among the archaeological methods of which the general public seldom hears, one of the most delicate lies hidden: palynological analysis

Among the archaeological methods of which the general public seldom hears, one of the most delicate lies hidden: palynological analysis. The method studies plant pollen. Microscopic grains, measuring a few thousandths of a millimetre, fall from flowering trees and grasses by the billion and settle everywhere: on the ground, in

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Nature · Humour

And what is wrong with the short-term memory of all those Muscovites who have fallen into hysterics over snow at the end of April?

And what is wrong with the short-term memory of all those Muscovites who have fallen into hysterics over snow at the end of April? It falls, as a matter of fact, quite regularly even in June

Archaeology · Geography · Science · Nature

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena has set side by side three sets of data: models of the distribution of the largest complexes of vector mosquitoes, palaeoclimatic models and the settlement sites

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena has set side by side three sets of data: models of the distribution of the largest complexes of vector mosquitoes, palaeoclimatic models and the settlement sites of early humans in sub-Saharan Africa in the period

Science · Society · Nature · Ethnography

Gibraltar is home to Europe's only wild monkeys: Barbary macaques, about 230 of them

Gibraltar is home to Europe's only wild monkeys: Barbary macaques, about 230 of them. Tourists feed them ice cream, crisps and bread, despite a fine of £4,000. Yes, Gibraltar is a British territory, disputed by Spain. A recent study records that in response to this diet the

NB! · London · Society · Nature · Humour

The Retriever in the British Parliament Has Long Since Understood Everything About Everyone

NB! · Archive · Geography · Nature · Ethnography

Women gathering Siberian berries on the River Biryusa, a tributary of the Angara

Women gathering Siberian berries on the River Biryusa, a tributary of the Angara. Near the village of Lugovaya in Krasnoyarsk Krai, 1990

Archive · Nature

Snowdrops

Photograph by Igor Gnevashev, 1965

Observations · Science · Society · Nature · Humour

Despite the sudden loss of 1.6 million bee colonies in a mass die-off across the US in a single year, the Trump administration plans to close the USDA's leading bee research laboratory

Between June 2024 and March 2025, 1.6 million bee colonies died in the United States. It is the largest single die-off in the country's history. Many beekeepers lost between 60 and 80% of their hives, and some lost 9 of 12 colonies in a single winter.

NB! · Observations · Society · Nature · Humour

Why can we never get it into our heads that black is white, and felling trees is "improvement"

Museums · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

A Mother Dinosaur Watches over Her Brood

A mother dinosaur watches over her brood. This is a photograph of the display at the Museum of the Rockies, where in the 1980s and 1990s the skeleton of Maiasaura stood beside a model of a dinosaur nest with growing hatchlings. The point is that just such a Maiasaura nest,

Archive · Monarchies · Museums · Nature

The hive of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, photographed in 1896 for the album of the experimental apiary of the Imperial Russian Society for the Acclimatisation of Animals and Plants at Izmailovo

The hive is now kept in the museum of the Research Institute of Beekeeping in Rybnoye, in the Ryazan Region

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Iriska (Bun)

Iriska (Bun). Photograph by Katya Kosova at the “Cat Exhibition”, which opened yesterday at the SetProjects space