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The ancient city of Cyrene sat on the North African coast, in what is now Libya. Founded by Greek settlers in the seventh century BC, it became one of…
Most claims about remote places come with an asterisk. The remotest inhabited island still has a harbour and a supply ship. The remotest town has a road, or at least…
The number of continents is one of the first facts most people are taught about the world, and one of the least questioned. Seven: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North…
Picture the two places side by side. On one side of the Atlantic, the Sahara: the largest hot desert on the planet, stretching across the northern third of Africa, defined…
In the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1997, a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was doing routine work: monitoring an array of underwater microphones, or hydrophones, positioned to…
We tend to assume that simple things are old things. If an object is uncomplicated and useful, surely someone thought of it long ago. In fact, the gap between when…