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ON A SUMMER DAY in central London, a 44-year-old woman named Lucy Peel descended a slippery stairway on the bank of the River Thames to crouch on her hands and knees over a particularly intriguing ...

China plans to overtake the United States by building the world’s largest national park system, a network of wilderness bigger than Texas. Although China only created its first national park ...

The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia. The new study ...

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Caesar salad celebrates its 101st birthday in July 2025. We look at the origins of the popular dish — surprisingly, it ...

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In Kutaisi, Georgia, Imeretians still forage in nature for the ingredients that compose their colorful, vegetarian-friendly ...

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