A professor and group of students in Taiwan only set out to reorganize the university’s archive collections. To their surprise, the project sparked the rediscovery of a “mysterious” winged creature lost for 87 years. The Department of Entomology at National Taiwan University has a small museum connected to it. The collection, known as the Insect […]
Johnny Cash songs have been rediscovered and put on a new album by his son John Carter Cash. The record titled Songwriter was originally recorded by country singer Cash in 1993, a decade before his death aged 71, at LSI Studios in Nashville. The recording company was owned by his family members, and it is […]
Tom Terzin has been fascinated by beetles since he was a child. “They behave like tiny natural robots,” Terzin said in a Jan. 30 University of Alberta news release. “They crawl around obeying simple rules. If there’s an obstacle in their way they usually go around it, which is generally how a robot would behave.” […]
In many areas of Europe, it’s hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II’s devastating impact. Numerous buildings, bunkers, and military installations that survived the war, both in Germany and across the continent, attest to this. However, in the mid-1980s the discovery — or, rather, re-discovery — of three German U-boats entombed in […]