Old balls still scorch
Pores made shipwrecked cannon balls glow spontaneously.

Goodness gracious! Two British chemists believe they have solved the 26- year-old mystery of how shipwrecked cannonballs that were rescued from the deep spontaneously erupted into great balls of fire.

"They were glowing bright red and you could feel the heat coming off them as the desk began to smoke," recalls Bob Child, now a chemist at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales in Cardiff.
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Sheep Brain Dissection:
The Anatomy of Memory

By dissecting the brain of a sheep — an animal in which brain structure and function are similar to our own — we can see where memory takes place.
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