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Venice

Venice’s Timeless Splendor

The enchanting city celebrates its Middle Age and Renaissance glory through its art, architecture and enduring spirit

Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Most Beautiful Work

Fallingwater, a southwest Pennsylvania house designed by the famous architect, allows residents to live within a waterfall

Parthenon

The Parthenon’s Old World Order

After a recent restoration, the center of the Athenian Acropolis and symbol of Western democracy still inspires

Galápagos Islands

The Beautiful and Bizarre Galapagos Islands

Evolution disciples and the merely curious can experience conspicuously adapted wildlife off the coast of Ecuador

Antarctica

The Wild Extremes of Antarctica

The coldest and windiest place on Earth is still largely undiscovered

Mount Kilimanjaro

Hiking Mount Kilimanjaro

A trek up the world’s tallest freestanding mountain takes you through five different ecosystems and offers a stunning 19,340-foot view

The massive neoclassical market is divided into rows of icy seafood stalls and, in the attached building, kiosks filled with cuts of meat and butcher blocks.

Snapshot: Athens Central Market

More than 30,000 people mingle every day at Dimotiki Agora, the city’s busiest markets

Bright idea: Wolfgang Ketterle (in his M.I.T lab) hopes to discover new forms of matter by studying ultracold atoms.

The Coldest Place in the Universe

Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero

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Sound and Fury

Norman Mailer’s anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output

To learn how the mind works, biologist Laurie Santos (with a research subject on Cayo Santiago) studies a seemingly paradoxical question: Do monkeys assume that people act like monkeys?

Thinking Like a Monkey

What do our primate cousins know and when do they know it? Researcher Laurie Santos is trying to read their minds

Orcas swim in ice floes.

Wild Things

Life as We Know It

Absolute Zero

Why Is A Negative Number Called Absolute Zero?

Keep Petrels Plastic-Free

Illustration from The Nursery “Alice” by Lewis Carroll, 1890

Getting the Edge

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Parties of Two or More

Grizzly bear near Obsidian Creek in Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Bear Hair

Scientists collect hairs from Yellowstone grizzly bears to conduct genetic studies

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John Alexander: Looking Back

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