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Discovery of a New Class of Galaxies Challenges Our Understanding of How Galaxy Formation Works
Dragonfly 44 near the Coma cluster has the same mass as the Milky Way but only 1 percent of the visible matter
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France’s Top Court Overturns Burkini Ban
French swimmers may keep wearing what they please
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The Fight to Preserve Langston Hughes’ Harlem Home From Gentrification
A new kind of Harlem renaissance is threatening the home of one of America’s greatest poets
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Help Crowdsource the History of Wine
The University of California, Davis, is looking for online volunteers to help catalog and describe 5,200 wine labels
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Canadian Fishermen Caught Fabled 650-Pound, Century-Old Sturgeon
Nicknamed “Pig Nose,” the fish was quickly released back into the wild
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Playing the Bagpipes Can Literally Kill You
Known as “Bagpipe Lung,” the reaction can wreak havoc on your respiratory system
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Calling All Conspiracy Theorists: Alaska’s “Mind-Control Lab” Is Hosting an Open House
Depending on who you ask, HAARP can control minds, weather, and even earthquakes
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Hearst Castle Has a Brush With California’s Wildfires
Curators were ready to evacuate the Hearst Estate, now a state park and museum full of priceless art, furniture and history
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Coffee Consumption Could Be in Your Genes
A new study shows a genetic variation in caffeine metabolism may lead some to drink a little less joe
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This Robot Is Soft and Squishy Inside and Out—No Wires or Batteries Necessary
“Octobot” uses a deceptively simple fuel source and inspiration from the depths of the sea
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Ancient Egyptian Stories Will Be Published in English for the First Time
Translated from hieroglyphics on monuments, tombs and papyri, the book will present tales few outside of academia have read
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Explore Some of America’s Greatest National Parks in Virtual Reality
The next best thing to celebrating the Centennial in person
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Astronomers Have Discovered an Earth-Sized Exoplanet in Our Cosmic Backyard
But what would potential life look like on this planetary neighbor?
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Publisher Set to Release Exact Replicas of the World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript
There will be 898 copies made of the coded Voynich Manuscript, which has stumped scholars for over a century
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Maine Just Got the Nation’s Newest National Monument
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument could one day become a national park
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At 75 Pounds, This Could Be the World’s Largest Pearl
The Filipino fisherman found the massive gem over a decade ago and kept it as a good luck charm
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Scan Reveals Rare, 500-Year-Old Mesoamerican Manuscript
Hyperspectral imagery reveals hidden Mixtec paintings and glyphs on the 16-foot, deer-hide Codex Selden
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Inside the Upcoming Memorial and Museum Dedicated to Lynching Victims
Spanning slavery to segregation to mass incarceration
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Journey to the Center of Earth
The Geology Behind Italy’s Catastrophic Quake
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook the Apennine Mountains—and given the region’s geology, that’s no surprise
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