The NYC Transportation Crew Helping Preserve Its Cobblestone Streets

Meet the specialty bricklayers helping to preserve a quaint remnant of New York City’s early days.

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Ancient Roman Gravestone Found in New Orleans Backyard Touches Off a Mystery

Nobody knew how a nearly 2,000-year-old grave marker landed in a backyard for decades — until this week.

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Was There Life on Mars? A Rock Found by NASA Keeps Getting More Interesting.

NASA is still not saying it has found fossils of Martian microbes, but analysis of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover raises that possibility.

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Ukraine War Leads to Global Shortage of TNT for Military and Mining Use

Mining materials to make cement, gravel and a host of other common products require an explosive that is becoming more expensive and limited in supply.

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With a Shovel and a Dream, Woman Finds 2.3 Carat Diamond in Arkansas

After three weeks, with bug bites and tattered hiking boots, Micherre Fox found the stone at Crater of Diamonds State Park.

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2 Hikers Dead, 3 Others Injured After Rockslide in Canada’s Banff National Park

The hikers were struck by a cascade of sliding rocks on Thursday while traveling along a moderately difficult trail.

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Alaska Man Survives Being Pinned Face Down by a 700-Pound Boulder

Rescuers found Kell Morris with hypothermia, wavering in and out of consciousness, face first in a creek as his wife held his head out of the water.

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