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2018: "A team of arborists has successfully cloned and grown saplings from the stumps of some of the world’s oldest and largest coast redwoods, some of which were 3,000 years old and measured 35 feet in diameter when they were cut down in the 19th and 20th centuries. Earlier this month, 75 of the cloned saplings were planted at the Presidio national park in San Francisco. "

An animation showing our most detailed images of Pluto over the decades, from initial discovery through the New Horizons flyby.

2015: The flyby successful, the first "heart" photo downloaded.

2016: "Seven months after its historic encounter with Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission is still dazzling us with discoveries: ancient frozen canyons, chains of icebergs floating in rivers of exotic slush, signs of paleo-oceans, and more. "

"Beginning in 2002, the Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute began to plumb graves in a tomb complex located in northwestern China’s Taklamakan Desert. The site, which the Swedish archaeologist Folke Bergman started excavating in the 1930s, had been forgotten about for decades."

During early Covid lockdowns

"Our Ethicist in Residence concludes a year-long series with an interview of current bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo"

"New images of Anak Krakatau, which erupted last month and caused a deadly tsunami, are revealed."