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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is one of Colorado's International Dark Sky Parks.

Stay Up Late and Admire the Cosmos With This New ‘Stargazing Trail’ That Links Certified Dark Sky Destinations

The initiative debuts as Colorado gears up to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its statehood

Nymphéas, Claude Monet, 1907 

When Claude Monet Planted Water Lilies, Inspiration Struck. An Upcoming Auction Will Test How Much Collectors Prize the Floral Masterpieces

The marquee painting from Monet’s “Nymphéas” series is expected to fetch more than $40 million at auction later this month

The two-wheeled wagon found in the grave is a particularly rare find.

Cool Finds

Construction in Germany Revealed the ‘Princely Grave’ of a Celtic Warrior Who Was Buried With Weapons and a Two-Wheeled Wagon

Archaeologists say the find proves “the previously only assumed presence of a local Celtic elite.” Grave goods also included gold jewelry and a jug imported from modern-day Tuscany

The convenience of working from home can come with hidden costs, according to new research.

Working From Home Is Making People Lonelier and Worsening Mental Health, a Study Suggests

The findings do not mean that in-office mandates are a fix, experts say. Instead, workplaces should have flexible policies that allow employees to choose where they’d like to work

Some tasks involved grabbing food in tricky situations.

Is Your Dog Right-Pawed or Left-Pawed? Here’s How to Figure It Out, According to a New Study

Researchers devised a series of tests to measure your furry friend’s laterality, which can be associated with behavior, emotion and cognition

FCB Cadell painted Interior: The Lady in Black in the 1920s.

Cool Finds

With A.I.’s Help, a Family Realized Their Mysterious Thrift-Store Find Is a Portrait by a Great Scottish Painter

The oil painting, the work of “Scottish Colorist” FCB Cadell, just sold at auction for more than $250,000

How teenage participants moved on a schoolground in Spain. 

Researchers Accidentally Discover That Humans Prefer to Turn Counterclockwise. But They Still Have No Idea Why

The effect transcends factors like culture, gender and handedness, causing the scientists, who were initially studying social distancing behavior, to scratch their heads

Scientists explored a tiny portion of the site during more than 30 dives with a submersible.

Scientists Discover the World’s Largest, Deepest Whale Graveyard, Where Cetacean Remains Have Been Piling Up for Five Million Years

The massive necropolis, located deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean, is teeming with marine life supported by the whale carcasses, including many suspected new species

Superior Falls cascades 90 feet into a pool below as the Montreal River makes its way to Lake Superior.

See Stunning Photos of New National Park Land That Soon Will Be Accessible From America’s Longest National Trail

The 213 acres of land in far northern Wisconsin, along the southern shore of Lake Superior, include a waterfall

Crews are wrapping up work on a new wildlife crossing in Northern California.

Mule Deer Are Already Using California’s First Wildlife Crossing—and It’s Not Even Finished Yet

Construction on the $20 million bridge in Siskiyou County began last year and is expected to be complete by this fall, with miles of eight-foot-high fencing along the highway to help funnel animals toward it

Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards, Bonifacio Bembo

See Visions of the Past and Future in This New York City Exhibition on the Renaissance Roots of Tarot Cards

The Morgan Library & Museum traces the history of beautifully illustrated tarot cards from their origins as a card game to modern occult fascination

A team of researchers put out information about a fake disease, and A.I.-powered chatbots fell for it.

Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real

The eye condition bixonimania doesn’t exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricated—despite obvious clues

Gordon S. Wood was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2011. 

America's 250th Anniversary

Four Reasons You Should Know More About Gordon S. Wood, the Scholar of the American Revolution Who Died This Week at Age 92

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, who wrote of the “radicalism” of the country’s founding, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in a parking lot

Columns found in Ehnasiya

Cool Finds

Archaeologists Unearth a Marble Aphrodite, a Pharaoh’s Cartouche and a Roman Basilica, All in One Ancient Egyptian City

The collection of artifacts represents the layered history of Ehnasiya, an ancient Egyptian capital that became the Roman city of Heracleópolis Magna

A slice of the rare angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shows olivine crystal (green), a mineral rich in magnesium.

A Rare Meteorite Found in the Sahara Desert Offers Evidence of a Lost Protoplanet

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system

Four of the woman's bones appear to have been broken and whittled.

This Woman’s Brains Were Scooped Out and Her Bones Were Broken and Whittled in Scotland 2,000 Years Ago

Researchers say the modifications may represent a previously unknown funerary ritual in Iron Age Britain

The Dance of Death, a 16th-century artwork by an anonymous German artist

See the Human Body Morph Into Musical Instruments From Around the World at a New Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history show

Researchers recovered environmental DNA from ancient ground squirrel poop.

Researchers Investigated Ancient Squirrel Poop Frozen in Permafrost and Found Enlightening Details About the Animal’s Ecosystem

Up to 700,000 years ago, ground squirrels in modern-day Canada collected tons of helpful genetic information on their bygone environment through their diet

Workers recovered this cannon from the Savannah River in 2022.

Cool Finds

Workers Dredging the Savannah River Stumbled Upon 19 Cannons That Had Been Underwater Since the Revolutionary War

The centuries-old artifacts emerged from the riverbed between 2021 and 2022. Experts spent several years carefully restoring 17 of them, which will make their public debut in a new exhibition

The 12,060-piece set will be available in November.

You Can Soon Build the Sagrada Família Out of 12,060 Legos. Here’s Why the Famed Basilica Is an Architectural Marvel

Pioneering architect Antoni Gaudí’s plans for the basilica were ambitious and complex, drawing on creative geometric forms and ancient inspiration, which is one reason it remains unfinished after 144 years

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