Jaw-Dropping Video Shows Blue Whale Chowing Down on Krill
A drone captured the giant cetaceans plowing through krill clouds to get their fill
Without Edgar Allan Poe, We Wouldn’t Have Sherlock Holmes
C. Auguste Dupin, Poe’s main character, was the first genius detective
The Chance of Another El Niño Is Rising
As the year presses on, the likelihood of another wacky winter has grown
John Adams Was the United States’ First Ambassador as Well as Its Second President
Adams’s house in the Hague was the first-ever U.S. Embassy
Sealed Files of the United Nations War Crimes Commission Will Finally See Light of Day
The massive archive has already revealed that war crimes charges against Hitler were drawn up as early as 1944
Watch a Large Asteroid Streak Through the Night Sky
Only a small telescope will be needed
New Technique Shows San Rock Art Is 5,000 Years Old
Using a highly refined form of carbon dating, researchers were able to date the pigments in art in Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa
After Centuries of Searching, Scientists Finally Find the Mysterious Giant Shipworm Alive
The three-foot long creature has long eluded scientists, but they finally got a closer look
Mummies and More Than 1,000 Statues Found in Egyptian Tomb
The treasure was buried near Luxor
A Minnesota Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Is For Sale, Original Furniture And All
Everything from the floor color to the light fixtures is as the architect designed it
Builders Find Remains of Five Archbishops of Canterbury
Turns out the vault in which they were buried wasn’t destroyed by flood after all
How Low Can Life Go? New Study Suggests Six Miles Down
Evidence of life from below a mud volcano hints at life beneath the crust
Scientists Want to Freeze and Pulverize Your Old Computers
E-waste is a growing problem worldwide, but a new method could help take a byte out of the issue
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and Some Other Guys
The midnight ride wasn’t so much a solo operation as it was a relay
Ancient Architectural Science is Coming to a Renowned Indian Engineering School
Principles of alignment with the sun and magnetic fields in vastu shastra stretch back 8,000 years
A Look Back at the 1925 Woman’s World Fair
After the success of the Chicago World’s Fair, women made their own event
NASA Spots New Crack in Greenland Glacier
Is the Petermann Glacier getting ready to rupture again?
Dingo Wins Competition for World’s Most Interesting Genome
The desert dingo beat out an explosive beetle, a pit viper and pink pigeon to win a grant to have its genome sequenced
“Are Women Animals?” Asked One 19th-Century Letter Writer
If women couldn’t have the rights of full human beings, “An Earnest Englishwoman” asked, could they at least have as many legal protections as animals?
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