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Over 80 years since Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, the physical marks left from D-Day do not entirely vanish; they have simply become less visible.

Archaeologists have unearthed one of the Roman world's strangest recent finds during an excavation beneath a town square in the Netherlands. Scientists have translated sections of a 2nd-century AD lead curse tablet bearing an extremely rare inscription in ancient Greek based on Egyptian magic.

General anaesthesia, which has long been regarded as a condition where awareness has effectively been turned off, now appears to offer much more potential according to recent studies. It has always been well-known in the medical community that the brain does not become entirely inactive during anesthesia.

People who visited the popular Reflecting Pool of the famous Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, noticed something unusual. The green hue of the water replaced its usual mirror-like quality that reflected the monument.

When we think about a massive ocean storm, we usually picture a familiar scene of surface chaos. We imagine towering whitecap waves crashing against each other, fierce winds whipping moisture through the dark air, and heavy rain pounding the sea surface.

When we think about the future of disaster relief and emergency response, our minds usually drift toward a very specific image of high-tech machinery. We imagine massive aerial drones scanning collapsed buildings from above, heavy-duty treaded vehicles clearing away tons of concrete blockages, and complex metallic humanoids carefully navigating through unstable ruins.

When we visit historic art museums, we usually think of Renaissance masterpieces in familiar terms. We imagine grand oil paintings depicting dramatic mythological struggles, elegant portraits of royal families dressed in finest silk, and beautifully idealised pastoral landscapes.

For centuries, engineers and historians have puzzled over one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world. Why have Roman buildings survived earthquakes, storms and nearly two millennia of wear while many modern concrete structures begin to crack and deteriorate within decades?

Rain is usually made of water, but elsewhere in the Solar System the weather can be unimaginably different. Scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory believe that on two giant planets, diamonds may form high in the atmosphere before falling like glittering hail towards their interiors.