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True Ghost Tale - The Haunting of Germany's UB-65

It takes an amazingly strong willed and practical person to crew the submarine fleets of the world’s navies and more so during the early twentieth century when the technology was new and the cold depths of...

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The extremely luminous afterglow of GRB 080319B was imaged by Swift's X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right). This was by far the brightest gamma-ray burst afterglow ever seen. Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al. 59

Ancient Nova Sets Modern Record

Long before our planet Earth had completed its formation from the swirling material around our local sun another star in our universe died in the fiery blast of a supernova. For seven and a half billion years...

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Why Landscape Gardening?

The horticultural arts are a tradition that reaches back to the beginning of our civilization. Once the care and nurturing of plants entered our lives we have gained a steady source of food and ultimately a...

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