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EXPLAIN EMILY. WELL, MARIA, THIS IS A STORY THAT STARTS NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO IN WEST NEWBURY, WHEN A THEN 14 YEAR OLD STUDENT PENNED A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE AS PART OF A CLASS PROJECT. DECADES LATER, HE ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

An archaeologist was shocked when he discovered a message in a bottle from over 150 years ago when digging at an old Viking graveyard. Norwegian historian Jacob Bredesen captured the moment the bottle ...

In 1874, the Bergen Museum on Norway’s southwestern coast appointed its first archaeologist and conservator. Though only 28 years old, Anders Lorange was making a name for himself by searching for ...

Some taxpayers who wanted to check the status of their application for the 2021 ANCHOR benefit said they couldn’t get through on the system. They received a message saying: “The ANCHOR application ...

In “The Message,” Coates grapples with questions about which stories are told, and how, through his visits to Senegal, South Carolina and the West Bank. By Anderson Tepper Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ...

Musicians have penned songs about it. Scientists have deployed them to study ocean currents. People lost at sea or aboard a sinking ship have used them as a last-ditch effort to call for help. In July ...

The 200-year-old message was found inside a glass salt bottle. Eu A team of student archaeologists volunteering in the French town of Eu has made a remarkable discovery: a 200-year-old message, rolled ...

Volunteers on an archaeological dig in the ruins of an ancient Gaulish village high above the cliffs in northern France this week uncovered a small glass vial —and within it a neatly rolled, ...