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Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help ...

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Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved ...