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Mount Vesuvius Boiled Its Victims’ Blood and Caused Their Skulls to Explode
A new study of residue on skeletons from the 79 A.D. eruption indicates Herculaneum was hit with a 400 to 900 degree pyroclastic flow
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How Siberian Huskies Get Their Piercing Blue Eyes
A new study suggests that the defining trait is linked to a unique genetic mutation
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How Salty Fish Helped the Maya of Belize Bolster Their Economy
A new study suggests that workshops on the coast of Belize were not only producing salt, but also preserving animal meat
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Polar Bears May Soon Feast on Whale Carcasses. Global Warming is to Blame.
This scavenging strategy saved sleuths of bears in the past, but it’s not sustainable as temperatures climb at unprecedented rates
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Time to Get Jiggily With it, Fat Bear Week Is Upon Us
Your vote will determine which fish-chomping ursine competitor in Katmai National Park and Preserve is the chubbiest cubby of them all
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Jenny Saville Takes Title of Most Expensive Living Female Artist
Her 1992 nude self-portrait “Propped” sold for $12.4 million. But the record-breaking price lags behind the amount paid to the men’s holder of the title
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How Fish Farms Can Use Facial Recognition to Survey Sick Salmon
A Norwegian aquaculture company plans to combat sea lice and other problems by monitoring individual salmon in a high-tech fish farms
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Tulsa to Search for Mass Graves From the Race Massacre of 1921
During the pogrom, a white mob killed an estimated 300 black Tulsans. According to eyewitnesses, the dead are buried in unmarked mass graves in Greenwood
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Dogs Are Smart, But Not Exceptional
A new study has found that a host of similar animals match, or even exceed dogs’ intellectual abilities
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The World Was Just Issued 12-Year Ultimatum On Climate Change
Leading climate scientists paint dire portrait of years to come if we maintain carbon-emission status quo
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New Law Puts Shetland on the Map—and Outside of a Box
Cartographers had previously been in the habit of representing the Scottish islands inside a box because they are located so far from the mainland
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We Haven’t Been Zapped Out Of Existence Yet, So Other Dimensions Are Probably Super Tiny
In theory, other dimensions aren’t big enough to form black holes and consume our universe or it would have happened already
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This Yellowstone Geyser Spat Out a Pacifier From 1930s—And Lots of Other Trash
Park officials found items like a cement block, coins, aluminum cans and a pacifier from the 1930s
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Watch This $1.4 Million Banksy Painting Shred Itself As Soon As It’s Sold
The street artist hid a built-in shredder in the frame of the artwork when he created it in 2006
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Sans Forgetica is the Typeface You Won’t Forget
This “memory-boosting” font is stylized with a left-leaning slant and gaps in each letter meant to encourage your eyes to linger longer
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Saturn’s Rings Rain Organic Compounds Into Its Atmosphere
The Cassini probe’s final flybys show that 22,000 pounds of material per second drops from the rings into the planet’s ionosphere
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Ancient Precursor to Pumpkin Spice Latte? Archaeologists Uncover Earliest Human Use of Nutmeg
Shards of ancient ceramics on Pulau Ay reveal nutmeg’s early history
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Eight-Year-Old Girl Finds Iron Age Sword in Swedish Lake
She’s no King Arthur, but locals are calling Saga Vanecek the “Queen of Sweden.” To that we say, long live Saga!
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Prehistoric Sharks Chowed Down on Pterosaurs
Even 83 million years ago, top carnivores considered wings a tasty treat
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Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad are recognized for working to bring healing to victims, accountability to perpetrators and greater visibility to the public
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