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Help the BBC Close Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
The Beeb’s hosting an edit-a-thon to improve the online encylopedia’s coverage of women
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How a Goggle-Wearing Parrot Could Help Future Robots Fly
By flying through a haze and lasers, Obi the parrotlet helped researchers figure out how much lift birds produce
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The Ancient Origins of Apple Cider
The classic fall drink has a boozy history going back thousands of years
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Scientists Discover Cosmic Dust in the Grime of City Gutters
Usually only found in remote locations, a dedicated amateur scientist combed through pounds of urban debris to recover these space specks
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Bare Down There? New Study Suggests You’re More Susceptible to STIs
Your pubic preferences could be linked to your sexual health
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Sleep-Deprived Drivers Can Be as Dangerous as Drunk Ones
Getting by on even slightly less sleep could put you at risk
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Thirty-four Years Ago, the First Person Died by Lethal Injection. It Was Controversial Then, Too
It was seen as more humane and relatively painless, but that’s not certain
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Historic Photos of Baltimore Show the Real-Life “Hairspray”
Hairspray Live! fans, learn the history behind the beloved story
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Oldest Community of Monks in U.K. Discovered
The find was thanks to a community training dig
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Why There Won’t Be Any Monuments to Fidel Castro in Cuba
El Comandante had one last dictate
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People at the 1904 World’s Fair Paid Half the Price of Admission for a Box of Cotton Candy
Celebrating cotton candy’s sugary, innovative goodness
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Scientists Finally Spot Giant, Slimy Sea Blob First Found Over a Century Ago
Discovered in 1899, the creature recently popped up in Monterey Bay
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This Artist Wants to Send a Sculpture of Your Laughs Into Space
#Laugh is on orbit to become the first art piece created in space
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The Washington Monument Looks Like an Obelisk Because of Egyptomania
In the 1800s, America was desperate to look like it had been around for a while, so it was adopting old styles. Really old
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Ever Wonder Why Encylopedia Is Sometimes Spelled Encyclopædia?
Scribes added the ash to the Roman alphabet so they could phonetically spell sounds that Latin didn’t include
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What Happened to America’s Most Precious Documents After Pearl Harbor?
Librarians and archivists made sure the nation’s records didn’t become casualties of World War II
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Gate Stolen From Dachau Concentration Camp Recovered in Norway
The metal gate bearing the slogan Arbeit Macht Freiwas recently found outside the city of Bergen
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Paris Is Selling Old Love Locks to Raise Money For Refugees
Putting clipped locks to good use
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Researchers Identify Queen Nefertari’s Mummified Knees
Found in 1904, new research confirms the mummified fragments in a Turin museum likely belong to ancient Egypt’s beautiful and revered queen
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You May Not Have Rhythm, But Your Eyeballs Sure Do
Tracking eye movement gives researchers a peek into how the brain reacts to music
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