A 19th century coin widely considered to be “the King of Silver Dollars” is hitting the auction block next week as part of ...

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The coin minted between 1584 and 1586 celebrates England’s naval superiority. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 9, 2025 9:27 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam analyzed the probability of a coin toss and found that it is not exactly 50/50. The team employed 48 people, using 46 currencies, to flip a coin 350,757 ...

In sports, coin tosses are often used to decide who goes first, or pick who goes to bat for the first part of the game. It seems fair. You'd assume that as coins have two sides and you introduce a ...

The two gold coins were minted almost 2,300 years ago, around the mid-third century B.C. "This makes them part of a very ...

Experts were thrilled to discover the coin on a remote island in the Scottish Orkney archipelago. The coin, which is believed to date from the mid fourth-century A.D., was found during an excavation ...

The principle of inertia is a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force. We are ...

The Celtic silver coins led to the top of Croatia’s Mount Pupak, where, after two years, researchers discovered the fortress.

A metal detectorist in England has unearthed two rare gold coins that date to the mid-14th century, a time when Black Death was ravaging the country. Edward III tried to rectify these monetary ...

Legend holds that the city of Portland, Oregon, was nearly called Boston. A coin toss in 1845 between Francis Pettygrove, who hailed from a different Portland, in Maine, and Asa Lovejoy, from Boston ...