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Medieval ghost stories featured rotten flesh, the walking dead and spoon‑stealing spirits

Stories of wandering spirits and the restless dead were common in the Middle Ages. These ghostly encounters were recorded in a wide variety of mediev…

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The phantom lighthouse: New research explains one of Australia's strangest illusions

There are two lighthouses on Lady Elliot Island, at the southernmost tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The first was built in 1873, but was deco…

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Climate change amplified 2024 European floods more than rainfall, models show

In September 2024, Storm Boris brought extreme precipitation and severe flooding to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Poland, Czechia and Au…

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Humidity can change how smoke pollutants transform after dark

What happens to smoke particles after sunset can depend strongly on something as familiar as the amount of water in the air. New research from Md. So…

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