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Napoleon’s retreat from Russia in 1812 Ary SchefferIandagnall Computing / Alamy Stock Photo During the retreat of Napoleon’s formidable 500,000-strong army from Russia in 1812, nearly…
summary Increasingly frequent and intense heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some of the desert plants known to thrive in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and…
IIn 2006, I was fired from my job at EB Games. Looking back, it was a justified decision. One Sunday, I recorded myself leaping over piles…
Artist’s impression of the last mammothBeth Zaiken About 10,000 years ago, a handful of woolly mammoths washed up on an island off the Siberian coast in…
Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library When I found out the date of the end of the Earth, everything seemed so simple. Five billion years from now, the…