THIS AMAZING WORLD
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A conversation in Zurich in 2011 led to a $2,000 drone that exposes illegal logging over Sumatra's rainforest — and a 2024 AI system that hears the chainsaw before the tree falls.
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The full story of how Macquarie Island was cleared of rabbits, rats and cats — the sealers who started it, the cat removal that backfired, and the virus, bait and dogs that finally won.
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The panda-costume clips look like a gag. They're a twenty-year survival experiment built from Xiang Xiang's death and aimed, oddly, at the mother panda's nose.
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The comet stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry is the oldest artwork of Halley's Comet — and, new 2025 research argues, a piece of Norman propaganda. Here's the omen, the timeline trick, the phantom ships, and the monk who recognised the star.
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A ~20-year-old caretaker died in Herculaneum in 79 CE and part of his brain became black glass — the only known case. Here's the physics, the ash-cloud paradox, and the argument scientists are having about it right now.
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Inside the only road system on Earth rebuilt for crabs — 31 tunnels, one bridge, kilometres of fence, and the tiny wasp that made it all matter again.
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Declared extinct in 1898, rediscovered in 1948, and now — for the first time — mostly wild. The full story of the takahē's 128-year comeback, up to the 2026 releases.
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How a single voluntary sentence kept soy off the rainforest for two decades, what the satellites actually proved, and why the deal came apart in January 2026.
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Scientists spent four years trying to prove the White Sands footprints weren't 23,000 years old — and failed. Here's how the date was finally settled.
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Military codebreakers, linguists, and neural networks have all failed to read the Voynich manuscript. Here is why it resists — and how a 2025 cipher study reopened the case.
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Rome paid for Indian pepper and gems in hard silver — but the coins became far more than money: temple offerings, deliberately slashed portraits, and copies bearing Lakshmi.
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Around AD 100, a Roman officer's wife wrote to invite her friend to a birthday party — and signed it in her own hand. It's the earliest surviving Latin written by a woman anywhere in the Roman Empire.
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