Creepy dolls, KGB secrets and unexpected pinball troves—media startup Atlas Obscura invites readers to explore their own hometowns on May 30
After all but disappearing, the mammals are again being sighted in Washington's Cascade Range
Two hundred years ago, a series of powerful temblors devastated what is now Missouri. Could it happen again?
High in the Himalayas, the Tibetan bunting is getting help from a very special friend
A scientist has discovered that high-pitched sounds made by the small rodents could actually be melodious songs
Scientists are just beginning to grasp how profoundly oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has devastated the region
Stranded on Cape Cod beaches, these Kemp's ridley turtles are getting a helping hand from volunteers and researchers
Dust captured by a spacecraft from a comet's tail holds clues to the origin of the solar system
A storied trove of fossils from a Canadian paleontological site is yielding new clues to an explosion of life on earth
An Illinois coal mine holds a snapshot of life on earth 300 million years ago, when a massive earthquake "froze" a swamp in time
The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble
Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?
The discovery of the saola alerted scientists to the strange diversity of Southeast Asia's threatened forests
Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
Where do the elusive mountain climbers go? Researchers have finally learned some answers
Physicists in Massachusetts come to grips with the lowest possible temperature: absolute zero
What really happened aboard the <i>Mary Celeste</i>? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging
Why are coyotes, those cunning denizens of the plains and rural west, moving into urban centers like Chicago and Washington DC?
Are you a superstar? Just stick out your tongue and say "yuck"
The president envisions a future human mission to Mars, but medical researchers say surviving the journey is no spacewalk
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