Plus, a volcanic discovery; Europe’s frog legs problem; the world’s highest tides; AI and the Turing test
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| | In the past few weeks, the world has learned of China’s vast spy balloon operation and the possibility it would help arm Russia in the Moscow-launched first land war in Europe since Hitler.
Earlier, for decades, Beijing kept another secret—the discovery of an 800-year-old shipwreck. What was the big deal in hiding the news about the Nanhai No. 1 (illustrated above)? What has the world learned about it now?
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| | | Lost in transit: Much of the original cargo remains aboard the 100-foot-long junk, which was nearly intact. It took years to raise the vessel, now displayed in a vast museum tank. Read on. | | | |
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| | Where are great fossils? Try a place with the world’s highest tides. Canada’s Bay of Fundy, a 170-mile-long basin in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, has one of the richest caches of fossils in the Western Hemisphere, Nat Geo reports. (Pictured above, ancient ferns are preserved in rock that washes up on the bayshore.)
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| | Are the doors locked? In this 1966 photo taken in Yellowstone, a grizzly bear approaches a car to beg for food. Today, regulations stipulate that visitors stay 300 feet from all bears in the iconic national park. See our best photos of Yellowstone.
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 | | ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW FAZEKAS | | Don’t miss Venus and Jupiter tonight: After sunset, look west for a close encounter between the biggest and the brightest planet in our skies. Of course, the worlds only appear close together—less than one moon disk apart in the sky tonight and late Thursday. Also Thursday night, watch the gibbous moon glide past the Gemini twin stars, Castor and Pollux. — Andrew Fazekas
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