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This Looks Like a Job for Vermin!

The common rat is hideous thing to behold. Two species make up what we call the true rat: the black rat Rattus rattus...

Written by Jason Bellows • 13 Aug 2007 • Read →

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Raiders of the Lost Lake

In the early 1990s, a Russian drilling rig encountered something peculiar two miles beneath the coldest and most deso...

Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Aug 2007 • Read →

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The Star Dust Mystery

The passenger manifest for British South American Airlines (BSAA) flight CS-59 might have made a perfect character li...

Written by Matt Castle • 30 Jul 2007 • Read →

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The Thugs of India

On a well-worn road through central India, Lieutenant Subhani of the Bengal Native Infantry and his three traveling c...

Written by Christopher S. Putnam • 23 Jul 2007 • Read →

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The Intrepid Pigeoneers

In October 1918, World War I was gradually drawing to a close in the Argonne Forest in northeastern France. Inch by...

Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Jul 2007 • Read →

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Coley’s Cancer-Killing Concoction

On October 1st 1890, William B. Coley, a young bone surgeon barely two years out of medical school, saw one of his fi...

Written by Matt Castle • 13 Jul 2007 • Read →

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Tesla’s Tower of Power

In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordi...

Written by Alan Bellows • 10 Jul 2007 • Read →

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On the Origin of Circuits

In a unique laboratory in Sussex, England, a computer carefully scrutinized every member of large and diverse set of...

Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2007 • Read →

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Reanimated Rodents and The Meaning of Life

One afternoon in the early 1950s, a young biochemist left his suburban lab bench at Britain’s Mill Hill National Inst...

Written by Matt Castle • 22 Jun 2007 • Read →

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Heavy Water and the Norwegians

On 19 November 1942, a pair of Royal Air Force Halifax bombers shouldered their way through thick winter clouds over...

Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Jun 2007 • Read →

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