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The MP3 Format is Music History's Latest Casualty

The Institute that licenses MP3 tech recently stopped, but the format that began the digital music era may live on indefinitely

Fanny Cornforth posted for "Lady Lilith" and other influential Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

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Newly Digitized Archives Reveal the Inner Lives of Artists

The Delaware Art Museum just put 500 rare documents online

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Spectacularly Detailed Armored Dinosaur 'Mummy' Makes Its Debut

A nodosaur found in Alberta includes some of the best preserved dino skin and armor ever found

Prince Rupert's Drops

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The 400-Year-Old Mystery of These Bullet-Shattering Glass Drops May Finally Be Solved

The tadpole-shaped glass structures can survive a hammer blow but explode if their tail is squeezed

There is no one final theory about the original purpose of the Nazca Lines.

How a German Mathematician Took Responsibility for an Ancient Peruvian Artifact

Maria Reiche lived in a shack in the desert with the Nazca Lines for 40 years

Chinese Tomb Murals Paint Colorful Picture of 1000-Year-Old Fashions

Racks of vibrant clothing and tables laden with fineries are depicted on the walls of the Liao Dynasty tomb

Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

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What Is Bears Ears National Monument?

The Department of Interior will make a recommendation about the land's fate in early June

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Did Peckish Christians Make Chickens More Social?

Religious dietary laws in the Middle Ages could have helped make the fowl less aggressive

Chocolate chips as we know and love them today.

The First “Chocolate Chip” Was a Molasses Candy

The name "chocolate chip" goes back much farther than the Toll House cookies

Aquarell 6 by Wassily Kandinsky

Download 200 Free Art Books, Courtesy of the Guggenheim

Titles devoted to Picasso, Rothko, Lichtenstein, Klimt and more are now available for your reading pleasure

The Parkes radio telescope in Australia, which discovered the first FRB and the most recent burst

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Latest Fast Radio Burst From Space Adds to Their Mystery

Researchers trained 11 telescopes on a recent burst's aftermath, but could find no traces of what caused the high energy signal

Roosevelt became known for meeting with conservation figures like John Muir, something that detractors thought was "unpresidential."

With This One Quotable Speech, Teddy Roosevelt Changed the Way America Thinks About Nature

In a speech at the start of the 1908 Conference of Governors, Roosevelt changed the national conversation about resource use

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Is Australia’s Dingo-Proof Fence Changing the Ecosystem of the Outback?

A new study says yes, but it’s complicated

Jessica Dawson regularly takes her pup Rocky along to explore New York Art galleries, as shown here at Lost Objects by Allan McCollum at the Mary Boone Gallery.

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An Upcoming Art Exhibition Caters to Canine Critics

Touching (and licking and sniffing) the art is allowed

Illustration of Mystacodon selenensis

New Research

This 36-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is a "Missing Link" in Whale Evolution

Discovered in Peru, the new fossil has tiny remnants of hind limbs

Egyptian Princess May Have Been Buried in Newly Discovered Pyramid

An inscription suggests that the tomb once belonged to a pharaoh’s daughter

Franco's tomb features a 500-foot cross.

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Spain's Parliament Votes to Exhume a Dead Dictator

Franco’s reign of terror is over—but Spaniards are still making sense of his legacy

J. K. Rowling in 2010

Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Stolen

Police and J.K. Rowling have urged fans not to buy the magical manuscript

Wanted: modern takes on a classic group of plays.

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Battle the Bard in Shakespeare Remix Competition

$25,000 is on the line—along with some serious bragging rights

Today, apples are one of the most valuable fruit crops in the United States, according to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center.

Apple Pie Is Not All That American

Neither apples nor the pie originally came from America, but Americans have made this dish their own

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