Racing Around the Globe, Solving a History Mystery
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The hyperactive sequel âNational Treasure: Book of Secretsâ sends its archaeologist hero on a globetrotting quest that might have been devised after a long night of Wikipedia surfing.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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Hundreds of World War II crash sites still dot the European landscape, but finding them isn't as easy as one may think.
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The rover Opportunity will soon go over the edge into Victoria Crater in search of new hints about Marsâs ancient, and possibly wet, past.
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Vroom! See which of the world's wheels get you from here to there quickest.
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DNA tests on British men shed light on a mystery surrounding the ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, America's third president.
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Boston, cradle of the American Revolution, is making some new history for itself these days.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Interactive, detailed maps of the human brain and genome will spur new discoveries.
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Each November, John W. Schutt flies to Antarctica to join a team of geologists who search for meteorites. His mission is to ensure that they make it back alive.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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Code-breakers from Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire are to reveal their findings on a 250-year-old mystery.
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the worldâs most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
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Is his mysterious three-wheeled cart a proto automobile? A remote-controlled robot? A rolling Renaissance computer? Follow the quest to rebuild Leonardo's 'impossible machine.' By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine.
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One of history's deadliest diseases has been making a comeback. Scientists want to know why
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.