Exhibition Shows How Iran’s Present and Past Merge Through Art
The new show at LACMA features 125 works of art from more than 50 artists, some of whom couldn’t make it to the opening because of the travel ban
Massive Sinkhole Opens Up in New Zealand
The gaping chasm has revealed 60,000-year-old volcanic deposits
Your Summer Vacation Is a Carbon Emissions Nightmare
A new study of tourism supply chains shows that all those flights, zip-line tours and foie gras produce 8 percent of global carbon emissions
The Sun Will Produce a Beautiful Planetary Nebula When It Dies
A new model of stellar death shows our low-mass star has enough juice to produce a beautiful ring of gas and dust before winking out
New System Ranks America’s “Bicycle-Friendly” Cities
Fort Collins, Colorado, was crowned No. 1 in PeopleForBikes’ inaugural list
Sorry, There Are No Secret Chambers in King Tut’s Tomb
After two contradictory radar scans, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities commissioned a third comprehensive survey that revealed no voids beyond the tomb walls
The Legendary Sultan Saladin Was Likely Killed by Typhoid
Reviewing historical accounts of his death, doctors and historians believe his sweating fits and weakness were brought on by the bacterial infection
Hamilfans, Rejoice: Exhibition on the Revolutionary Musical Is Slated to Open This Fall
‘Hamilton: The Exhibition’ is coming to Chicago in November
Digital Forensics Reconstructs Seven Lost Masterpieces
Artwork by Van Gogh, Klimt, Monet and more have been painstakingly remade by Factum Arte for a new television series
Vegan Kimchi Is Microbially Pretty Close to the Original
A comparison between kimchi made with miso and kimchi made with fish sauce revealed that fermentation equalizes the bacterial communities
Australian Brewers Are Making Beer From Yeast Found on a Shipwreck
A new porter-style ale gets its funk from a 220-year old specimen
World’s Largest Victorian Glasshouse Opens Doors After Five-Year Restoration Project
London’s Kew Gardens’ Temperate House is home to some of the world’s rarest plants
Analysis Breaks Down the Annoying “Poet Voice”
It’s not just you; poets also read their works aloud with long pauses, weird cadences and almost no emotion
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Cracks Open Earth, Endangering Neighborhoods With Lava
The area affected by the lava is one of the fastest growing in the state
Antarctica’s Waters May Soon Harbor a Boom of Baby Humpback Whales
Declining sea ice levels due to climate change may be helping the whales for now
Artist’s Quilts Pay Tribute to African-American Women
Artist Stephen Towns’ first museum exhibition showcases his painterly skill through traditional textile art
Peru’s Rainbow Mountain Could Be in Danger Following Surge in Popularity
Up to 1,000 tourists visit the colorful ridge every day. But this influx of people is eroding the nature
Newberry Library Digitizes Trove of Lakota Drawings
The art is part of a larger digitization project of early American history by the Chicago-based research library
700,000-Year-Old Butchered Rhino Pushes Back Ancient Human Arrival in the Philippines
The find changes the story of human migration, but scientists still don’t know what human species did the cutting
No, the Bone of Saint Clement Was Probably Not Just Found in London’s Trash
A waste hauler found the bone fragment in a case sealed with red wax and tied with red cords. It included a faded label reading: “Ex Oss. S Clementis PM”
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