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Exiting the European Union could have far ranging consequences for industries throughout the United Kingdom

June 21, 2016

New Research

What Happens in the Brain When Music Causes Chills?

The brains of people who get chills when the right song comes on are wired differently than others

June 20, 2016

Residents of Makoko look on its floating school at night in December. Today, the school is nothing more than an empty, broken platform.

…until it sank

June 20, 2016

The library's current location isn't where Hamilton and Burr read books, but the membership library still owns books that they checked out.

Cool Finds

This Library Has Books Checked Out by Hamilton and Burr

The New York Society Library was wide enough for both men

June 20, 2016

Cool Finds

The Contentious History of the Cherry Tomato

The salad topper has a long and fraught history

June 20, 2016

Cool Finds

Meet Three of Earth’s Tiny Celestial Buddies

A handful of quasi-satellites, mini-moons and Trojan asteroids tag along with Earth as it whizzes around the sun

June 20, 2016

Hemingway made this airy estate his Cuban home away from home—and wrote some of his most famous novels here.

Cool Finds

As U.S.-Cuba Relations Warm, This Long-Dead Author Benefits

A new conservation facility is on its way to Hemingway’s home near Havana

June 20, 2016

Reinhold Hanning a 94-year-old retired dairy farmer served as a guard at Auschwitz during World War II

June 17, 2016

A memorial in solidarity with the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in front of Montreal's St. James United Church.

Hate crimes against LGBT people are far from rare

June 17, 2016

Cool Finds

Watch a Horde of Giant Crabs Amass Off of the Australian Coast

Hundreds. Of thousands. Of crabs.

June 17, 2016

Mongolia Adopts Address System That Uses Three-Word Names

What3words’ geo-coding system divides the Earth’s surface into 57 trillion squares, and assigns each a unique, memorable string of names

June 17, 2016

A pair of nilgai, Asia's largest species of antelope.

The cull will include a range of animals deemed troublesome to people—including rhesus monkeys and wild boar in some places

June 17, 2016

Just what lies beyond the next valley, canyon, crater, or hill is NASA's perpetual question.

Art Meets Science

Check Out NASA’s Retro Mars Recruitment Posters

Farmers, teachers, surveyors and engineers will all be needed in the envisaged Mars settlement

June 17, 2016

A drawing of one of the Athenian ship sheds built in the harbors of Piraeus

Cool Finds

Archaeologists Uncover Massive Naval Bases of the Ancient Athenians

Researchers have excavated ship sheds in the city of Piraeus that held triremes from the pivotal Battle of Salamis

June 17, 2016

An illustration of asteroid 2016 HO3's orbit.

New Research

Scientists Spot Tiny Asteroid Tagging Along Behind The Earth

It’s our very own “quasi-moon”

June 17, 2016

New Research

A New Hitch in the Plan for Building a Space Elevator

Carbon nanotubes may not be as strong as scientists once thought

June 17, 2016

This concept drawing shows Juno in orbit around the solar system's largest planet.

It all goes down July 4

June 16, 2016

Cool Finds

Japan Honors the Creator of the California Roll

Some may see it as an affront against sushi, others see an ambassador for culture

June 16, 2016

The Amazon Basin just got a little bit safer.

Earth’s largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies

June 16, 2016

An illustration of the Tate Modern's new Switch House expansion.

The museum is being called the UK’s most important new cultural building since the British Library

June 16, 2016