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Alexander Clark

Latest Articles by Alexander Clark

The Tarim mummies turned up with European features deep in a Chinese desert

The Sutton Hoo mound hid a whole ship and a king’s treasure

Catalhoyuk had no streets, so its people walked across the town’s rooftops

Skara Brae is a Stone Age village older than the pyramids and Stonehenge

The honey badger shrugs off cobra venom and raids beehives without fear

The coconut crab is strong enough to crack a coconut with its claws

The platypus is a venomous, egg-laying mammal that hunts using electricity

The International Space Station circles the entire planet once every 90 minutes

The Chernobyl exclusion zone has quietly become one of Europe’s largest wildlife refuges

The Panama Canal lifts giant ships 85 feet uphill using nothing but gravity-fed water

The Chicxulub crater buried under Mexico marks the day an asteroid ended the dinosaurs

The Honda K-series engine became a legend for shrugging off 250,000 miles of abuse

Some 1990s Japanese sedans still outlast new cars because of one overbuilt engine family

Start-stop engines are dying off, and drivers finally learned what killed the feature

Easter Island’s giant moai ‘walked’ into place, and modern experiments finally showed how

Doctors find grip strength predicts how long you’ll live more reliably than blood pressure

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