World Explained · Football history
Spain's two World Cup titles, compared across 16 years
Spain's 2010 and 2026 champions both won a 1-0 final in extra time, but their routes, tournament formats and defining moments were not the same.
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The 2,000-year-old computer recovered from a shipwreck
A corroded set of bronze fragments from an ancient shipwreck turned out to be a sophisticated hand-powered model of astronomical cycles.
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