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Enviromentalists discover WWII Enigma machine in the Baltic Sea
Enviromentalists discover WWII Enigma machine in the Baltic Sea
Credit: WWF / Christian Howe

Underwater archeologists, who were commissioned by the environmental organization WWF to clean the Baltic sea from abandoned fishing nets, found inside of one of those fishing nets an old German Enigma machine from the Second World War. The Enigma machine from the M3 series was probably part of one of the vessels which were sunk by the German Kriegsmarine in 1945 during the operation "Regenbogen" to avoid surrendering them to the Allied Forces.

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Notebooks written by Charles Darwin worth millions have been lost for 20 years according to Cambridge University Library
Notebooks written by Charles Darwin worth millions have been lost for 20 years according to Cambridge University Library
Credit: Julia Margaret Cameron / via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

Cambridge University Library has announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, have been missing for 20 years. One of them contains the 19th Century scientist's famous Tree of Life sketch, exploring the evolutionary relationship between species. Curators have now concluded they have probably been stolen.