Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese ship seized by pirates in 1721 near Madagascar. After 16 years of investigation, the team behind the find says the evidence points to one of the most notorious raids of the Golden Age of Piracy. The researchers, from the American-based Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation, have been working in a small harbor on Nosy Boraha, an island off Madagascar’s northeast coast. In the early 18th century it was known as Île Sainte-Marie, a hangout for European pirates. New details of the work appear in the latest…
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It’s not easy to extract iron from its ore. But the peoples of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe—the capital of a thriving kingdom in southern Africa between A.D. 1000 and 1700—were masters.
The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge near Hawaii has welcomed a special couple: George and Geraldine, two short-tailed albatrosses (Phoebastria albatrus). The birds have officially found each other for nesting season on the Midway Atoll for the 10th straight year in a row. George was first spotted on October 18, and the pair was reunited by October 22. Every fall, the remote group of islands becomes a temporary home to the world’s largest albatross colony. Albatrosses are a group of large migratory seabird species, including the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), which has the largest wingspan of any current bird species.…
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For more than 600 years, Japan’s emperors sent young women from their own family away from the capital to serve the gods. The women left behind their homes, their places at court and much of the life they had known. Their new home was not a temple. It was a palace. That palace disappeared centuries ago. But archaeologists digging in a quiet town in central Japan now believe they have found its heart, buried beneath the ground for roughly 1,300 years. Postholes as Wide as a Person Is Tall The site is Saikū, in Meiwa, Mie Prefecture, about 10 kilometers…
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A team of students and researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has run three rocket-motor firing tests on a prototype lunar landing pad. The pad captured and redirected the exhaust through an integrated vent system. It is a milestone for the landing infrastructure a future Moon base will need, because landing on the Moon is not an easy task. Beyond the intense heat the engines produce, the force of a vertical landing or takeoff kicks up regolith, the particulate dust that covers most of the moon’s surface. With so many crewed and cargo missions on the calendar, space…