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Scientists Need Your Help Rescuing 100-Year-Old Weather Records

A new citizen-science project needs volunteers to digitize decades of temperature, rain and barometric data from across western Europe

Members of parliament react to the passage of the Marriage Amendment Bill, from left to right, Cathy McGowan, Adam Brandt and Andrew Wilkie.

Australia Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage in Jubilant Vote

The first same-sex weddings will be able to take place as early as January 9

Artist’s concept of the observatory discovering the supermassive black hole from end of the cosmic Dark Age as the first stars blinked on.

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Scientists Discover Ancient Black Hole From the Dawn of the Universe

Sitting some 13.1 billion light years away, the find offers a window into the early universe

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Why Lubaina Himid's Turner Prize Win Is One for the History Books

The 63-year-old, Zanzibar-born contemporary artist becomes the oldest person and first woman of color to win the prestigious award

Christine Keele at the Marlborough Street court

Christine Keeler, the British Model at the Heart of a 1960s Political Scandal, Is Dead at 75

Keeler had simultaneous relationships with a Conservative politician and a Soviet attaché, prompting concerns that she had revealed British state secrets

Madame Tussauds Berlin--one of the many Tussauds wax museums that bears Marie Tussaud's name--has a wax sculpture of Marie Tussaud herself. Here, she's portrayed sculpting the head of Ben Franklin (which is a thing she actually did).

How Marie Tussaud Created a Wax Empire

From France, to Britain, to the world, Tussaud's waxworks endure

Lanterns in Medellín, Colombia.

Colombia Begins the Christmas Season With These Beautiful Light Displays

Día de las Velitas is celebrated on the day before the celebration of the Immaculate Conception

You may know the woman depicted here as Rosie the Riveter, but she wasn't originally called that.

The Riveting Story of an American Icon

Rosie has a surprising history

An aerial view of the Getty's Los Angeles campus taken before the so-called Skirball Fire broke out Wednesday

Why the Getty Center Is the "Safest Place" For Its Priceless Collection in the Case of Disaster

As wildfires blaze through Southern California, the Getty's Ron Hartwig explains how the structure was built with fire in mind

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Five Things to Know About the Redrawn National Monuments

The president is reducing two massive National Monuments by millions of acres. Read the context behind the decision and what to expect going forward

Winding Ice Age Cave Discovered Beneath Montreal

The cave stretches for more than 600 feet and splinters off into a number of different passageways

Satellite Images Show Frightening Intensity of California Wildfires

Thick plumes of smoke can be seen blowing across the Pacific

Is Your Champagne Good? Listen to the Bubbles for Clues

You may be able to <em>hear</em> a high-quality bubbly

These Are the Most Instagrammed Museums of 2017

Selfie, selfie, in the feed—which institutions did users of the popular photo sharing site tag as the fairest of all?

The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

You've Seen The Washington Monument. Now See the Other Washington Monuments

Unsurprisingly, the obelisk in Washington, D.C. is not the only monument to America's first president

In this Dec. 21, 2012 file photo, people gather in front of the Kukulkan temple in Chichen Itza, Mexico. Mexican experts said Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 they have discovered what may be the original structure at the pyramid of Kukulkan at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza.

Ancient Maya Heritage Comes Alive...With Some Help From Google and the British Museum

Victorian explorer Alfred Maudslay’s images are now available online for all to see

More than 50 percent of Sweden is covered in forest, making bunkers easy to disguise in plain sight.

New Video Highlights Hidden Cold War Bunker in Sweden

Viral footage shows off the site that appears to have been inhabited by Swedish intelligence workers

Indonesia Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum

The inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara features 90 works by 70 artists

'Alice's Wild West Show' was actress Virginia Davis's favorite role in the 'Comedies'

Walt Disney’s First ‘Princess’ Was A Spunky Four-Year-Old

The silent ‘Alice Comedies’ ran from 1924 through 1927, predating Mickey

Unicode By LN Tallur Bronze, coins and concrete 2011 Tallur Studio, Koteshwara, Karnataka, India

Sweeping Mumbai Exhibition Tells the Story of India, With Help From the British Museum

‘India and the World’ features 124 loans from London and 104 objects from institutions across India

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