A candy maker helped popularize canning by bottling everything from eel to eggs to peaches

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A cartoon depicting William Pitt, left, sitting at a table with Napoleon Bonaparte, right, both dressed in military uniform and hat, with each carving a large plum pudding on which is a map of the world, with Pitt's slice larger than Napoleon's.
Napoleon wanted to conquer the world, but he lost thousands of soldiers to starvation, disease, and hypothermia.

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Japan is bracing for a tsunami with waves as high as 10 feet after more than 20 earthquakes hit in just over 90 minutes

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Road cracks caused by an earthquake are seen in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan on January, 1, 2024.

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Neanderthals and humans may belong to the same species, say scientists. It could rewrite the history of our evolution.

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An employee of the Natural History Museum in London looks at model of a Neanderthal male.

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NASA is on a mission to 'touch the Sun' in milestone moment for space exploration

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  • NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to pass the Sun on 24 December 2024.
  • It's due to fly past the sun at 195 km/s, or 435,000 mph.
  • "We are basically almost landing on a star," a scientist on the project said.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to pass the Sun next year in a milestone moment for space exploration.

13 breathtaking images NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took this year that changed our understanding of the universe

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Four images taken by JWST showing the Orion nebula (upper left), Uranus (upper right), a Wolf-Rayet star (lower left), and the Ring Nebula (lower right).

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An astronomer explains why the universe looks black even though it contains 200 billion trillion stars

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James Webb Space Telescope's view of Pandora's Cluster.

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The daughter of multi-millionaire oil tycoon Charles Koch thought she had to be liked to deserve to exist, until MDMA therapy

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Psychedelic clinical trials focus on a myriad of hallucinogenic drugs. Elizabeth Koch is a proponent for MDMA in therapy.

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Tributes pour in for 'standout' 15-year-old Australian surfer killed in a suspected great white shark attack

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Khai Cowley was a talented young surfer.

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6 weird invasive species wreaking havoc in the US, from self-cloning ticks to 20-pound rodents with orange teeth

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These weird invasive species can damage crops and soil and threaten native plant and animal species.

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Why you shouldn't be scared of spiders, according to a biology professor

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Biologist Sara Goodacre, seen in this photo montage, studies spider silk for use in medicine and engineering.
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