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Boardgames were a bit different in Roman times PRISMA ARCHIVO/Alamy Stock Photo By Colin Barras The dice used by gamers and gamblers in northern Europe became much more fair about 600 years ago. What’s

Fifty years after the unveiling of Concorde – the flawed, first supersonic airliner – its successors are coming. Maybe they’ll be the real deal, says Paul Marks The next generation REUTERS/Boom Supersonic

More than 50,000 villagers were forced to flee their homes after the most active volcano in the Phillipines, Mount Mayon, spewed lava and ash plumes. Huge volcano eruption in the Philippines forces mass

By Colin Barras It must have been something in the air. During a short time window at the end of the last ice age, Stone Age humans in Europe and Asia independently began using a new plant: cannabis.That’s