The mystery of a 200-year-old bottle has been solved. It turns out, it wasn’t a vessel for booze, but a “witch bottle” filled with pee and a bunch of botanicals to ward off malevolent spirits. The ...

This design is a basic one to show how the principle works. Using just the friction of a cork ... and the bottle goes the opposite way. The same amount of force can accelerate a heavy object ...

But before the workers could pop the cork and try a taste, the bottle was whisked away to a laboratory to be examined. Now, many months later, the object has ... Heritage show in June, according ...