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Kenya Moves to Shut Down the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Over the weekend, Kenya announced plans to shut the Dadaab and Kakuma camps, which house hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees
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Video Calls Are Replacing In-Person Visits at Some Prisons
For some companies, bans on in-person prison visits mean big business
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Super 8 Said Farewell to Its Kitschy Motel Art With a Gallery Show
Sending mediocre art off in style
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Journey to the Center of Earth
What Caused the 2011 D.C. Earthquake?
A thinning mantle led to the 5.8 magnitude shake in the Southeast, and more may be in store
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Scientific A-Team Plans to Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci’s Genome
Art historians, geneticists and other researchers are working together to compile the great artist’s DNA
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Want to Browse Some National Park Maps? There’s a Site For That
Can you guess the most popular map?
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Fossil Hunters Uncover 71-Million-Year-Old Trove in Antarctica
After a plane flight, boat ride, helicopter lift and a lot of hiking, the scientists returned with a massive cache of fossils
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Build Your Own Library at the First-Ever Little Library Festival
The book-sharing stations have popped up all across the United States
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A Modernist Sculpted Ceiling Was Uncovered in a U-Haul Showroom
The Isamu Noguchi work is being shown once again
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These Little-Known Nuns Helped Map the Stars
A century later, the identities of women who mapped over 481,000 stars are finally known
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Australians Make Beer Out of Belly Button Lint
Melbourne’s 7 Cent Brewery will debut a Belgian-style Witbier later this month brewed using yeast strains cultivated from its founders’ navels
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‘The Shining’ Looks to Raise Hairs and Octaves in Its Opera Debut
The Minnesota Opera will debut its take on the horror novel in a new production by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Paul Moravec
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The Oldest Species May Win in the Race to Survive Climate Change
It’s survival of the fittest, and the oldest may be the fittest, new study says
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Why Making ‘Derby-Pie’ Might Land You a Lawsuit
The Kentucky Derby’s traditional dessert has a tangled legal history
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Drought Forces Zimbabwe to Sell Its Wild Animals
Facing food and water shortages, the country hopes to save it’s wildlife
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Say “Au Revoir” to France’s Foie Gras (Only For a Bit)
Fowl flu fuels foie gras fears
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NASA Announces World’s New Lightning Hotspot
The electric capital tops the charts with lightning storms 297 nights per year
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Meet Mary Kies, America’s First Woman to Become a Patent Holder
Brains plus bonnets equal a historic first
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Virtual Reality Film Will Simulate Anne Frank’s Hiding Place
‘Anne’ will give audiences a sense of what it was like to be in the “Secret Annex”
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Why Are Chilean Beaches Covered With Dead Animals?
Warm waters have turned the country’s once-pristine coast into a putrid sight
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