WEIRD HISTORY
Starliner will be leaving the ISS without its crew. Boeing – By David Szondy 2024 Aug 24 – In a red-faced turn of events, NASA has announced that the two Starliner astronauts “not stranded” on the International Space Station (ISS) will be returning to …
National currency secured by bonds and issued by the First National Bank of Cleveland in 1863. U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency – By Dr. David P. Weber, Professor of the Practice in Fraud and Forensic Accounting, Salisbury University and by Jake …
Former Team GB Olympic athlete Sarah Claxton traced her American father through ancestry DNA testing. Photograph: Anselm Ebulue/The Observer – The Observer Genetics – Many people want to uncover their ancestry, but – driven by Brexit – others also hope to regain access …
The site of the newly uncovered wooden-boarded Roman well. Photograph: Mola The Observer – Roman Britain – ‘Astonishingly preserved’ remains in Cambridgeshire give clues to substantial Romano-British industrial settlement – Dalya Alberge 2024 Aug 17 – The Romans were remarkable engineers, thousands of …
A water pipe that was used to carry water to livestock crosses land burned in the Maui fires in August 2023. Andrew Whelton/Purdue University, CC BY-ND – By Andrew J. Whelton, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University Published: 2024 Aug 13 …
The palms of a patient during an outbreak of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. Getty Images – By Cheryl Walter, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science, University of Hull Published: 2024 Aug 13 – Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, …
The extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. Mark Stevenson/UIG via Getty Images – By Hans Sues, Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Smithsonian Institution Published: 2024 Aug 12 Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. …
Vernon Dalhart was a widely recorded singer in the early 20th century. The Library of Congress – By Ted Olson, Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University Published: 2024 Aug 09 – Country music’s origin story …
An artist’s impression of what some of the Francevillian biota lifeforms might have looked like. Professor Abderrazzak El Albani of the University of Poitiers, France – By Michael Irving 2024 Aug 03 – Scientists have discovered evidence that an isolated pocket of complex life …
Visitors walk past a sign reading ‘Stop: Extreme Heat Danger’ in Death Valley National Park during a heat wave on 2024 Jul 07. Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images – By Mathew Barlow, Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell and by Jeffrey Basara, Professor of …
