Don't go out wandering aimlessly looking for treasure. A little research can make your metal detecting hobby much more rewarding. By Eric Alt Published Apr 11, 2026 1:28 PM EDT Add Popular Science ...

In this episode of Depths of History, Britain and his friend Riley explore the woods of Tennessee using various metal detectors, including the Minelab X-Terra 705, X-Terra 305, Go-Find 20, 40, 60, and ...

I’ve just unearthed a Victorian livery button. After digging it from the soil and scrubbing it clean with my fingers, I expose a beautiful family crest on the front side and embossed writing on the ...

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At first, this feels like one of those river hunts where everything is rusted scrap, old trap parts, and heavy iron nobody can identify for sure. Then the entire video locks into focus. Once he pulls ...

While Quattlebaum and his two partners were indicted on mail fraud charges, and despite making the most obviously fraudulent ...

Even a scholar of historic coins is stumped by the Viking coin depicting a Christian biblical figure.

A story claims a revolutionary skunk works built a quantum sensor that was used to locate a missing airman by reading his pulse from 40 miles away. But physicists say the laws of biomagnetism make ...

Abstract: This paper considers a dipole solution to the low-frequency electromagnetic responses of a typical in-line metal detector to metal contaminants. This solution is determined by the ...

Metal implants can set off airport metal detectors, but TSA doesn't require a medical ID card. You shouldn't use the walk-through metal detector if you have a pacemaker, so let TSA know. If you prefer ...