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This Lost Roman Era 'Miracle Plant' May Have Been Rediscovered

A Turkish botanist is learning how to cultivate what some believe to be the closest living relative to a Classical-era kitchen staple written about by Romans and Greeks. The golden-flowered "Silphium" was reported by Pliney the Elder as growing in modern-day Libya, and has been translated as being a prescription for everything from "stomach pain […]

New Evidence Shows Giant Meteorites Created the Seven Continents Upon Impact With Earth

New research suggests the seven continents were created by giant meteorite impacts—similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. They happened more than three-and-a-half billion years ago, before life on Earth began— so the discovery sheds fresh light on evolution. Scientists analyzed a mineral called zircon, the microscopic grains of which act like a ‘geological […]