How one harbour connected the ancient Mediterranean
At Portus, ships, warehouses, canals and river barges transformed cargo from across the Roman Mediterranean into the food and materials that sustained imperial Rome.
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The microscopic alliances keeping forests alive
Beneath forests, fungi and roots exchange carbon, nutrients and water through microscopic interfaces. These partnerships shape tree health and soil—but the popular “wood wide web” story is more complicated than it sounds.
We are made of a universe still being discovered
The atoms in our bodies began in the early universe, were transformed inside stars and violent cosmic events, and gathered again when our Solar System formed.