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What Did Virginia’s Jamestown Colonists Eat?
So far, researchers have found remains of horses, rats and snakes in a well that dates back to the Starving Time
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You Can’t Get Closer to Picasso’s “Guernica” Than This 436-Gigabyte Image
The new “Rethinking Guernica” website also includes 2,000 documents and photos charting the painting’s 80-year history
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100 Stolen John Lennon Items Found in Berlin
The trove of memorabilia, which was stolen from Yoko Ono, includes Lennon’s diaries, glasses and handwritten music scores
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Skeleton of a Massive Extinct Sea Cow Found on Siberian Island
Remains of the Steller’s sea cow shed light on one of the first animals that taught humans about extinction
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Why Do We Call TV Watchers ‘Viewers’?
It all goes back to a quirky BBC subcommittee working in the 1930s to change the English language
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“Lost” 17th-Century Portrait by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Found in a Welsh Castle
The portrait, which depicts a Spanish writer and historian, has now been added to a Murillo exhibition in New York
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The Peculiar Story of the Witch of Wall Street
Walking the streets in black clothes and making obscene amounts of money, Hetty Green was one of the Gilded Age’s many characters
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Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher and Lottery Scammer
The French government was trying to raise money by running a bond lottery, but a group of intellectuals had other ideas
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Your Brain Swells—Then Deflates—While You Learn
Researchers hypothesize that the brain “auditions” various cells that form, but only keeps the best of the best
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Watch This Year’s Hurricanes Swirl Across the Globe in New NASA Visualization
Scientists combined supercomputer simulations with satellite data tracking particles of sea salt, dust and smoke to create the mesmerizing graphic
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How Clogs Damaged the Feet of 19th-Century Dutch Farmers
A study of 132 skeletons revealed bone chips associated with a rare condition
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The First Interstellar Object Seen Buzzing by Earth Is Pretty Weird
Roughly the size of a football field, the object is roughly 10 times longer than it is wide
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Keystone XL Pipeline Clears Major Obstacle for Construction
The move is the latest development in the long history of the controversial pipeline
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The First Thanksgiving Parades Were Riots
The Fantastics parades were occasions of sometimes-violent revelry
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This Rock Art May Be the Earliest Depiction of Dogs
The carvings are between 8,000 and 9,000 years old and hint that the creatures may already be heading toward domestication
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Rare Photograph of Billy the Kid Found at a Flea Market
The tintype image was purchased for $10 but might be worth millions
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Presidents From Lincoln to FDR Kept the Thanksgiving Tradition Going
Lincoln started the process of making it a federal holiday in 1863, crystallizing something that had been around since the days of the Pilgrims
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In Attempt to Contact Intelligent Life, Group Sends Musical Signal Toward Planet GJ 273b
Though the chances are slim, the team hopes this latest transmission is just the first of many
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Scientists Search for the Most Dangerous Places to Be a Shark
In a bid to stop the populations from dwindling, scientists are turning to big data
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The Historic Tail of the Weeki Wachee Mermaids
You can even learn to “mermaid” yourself, if the fancy takes you
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