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More Than Half of All Americans Breathe Polluted Air
166 million people a year are exposed to air that’s too dangerous to breathe
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Palmyra Arch Destroyed by ISIS Rises Again in Central London
Using 3-D photos and computer guided stonecutters, researchers recreated the Triumphal Arch destroyed by the terrorist group last year
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Dutch Divers Found a 17th-Century Dress Buried Under the Sea
The 400-year-old gown was remarkably well-preserved
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Every City Has a Unique Microbial “Fingerprint”
From architecture to microbes, every city is different
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Do Insects Have Consciousness and Ego?
The brains of insects are similar to a structure in human brains, which could show a rudimentary form of consciousness
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Read Almost 150 Years’ Worth of Mexican-American Journalism
History is in the headlines at the Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection
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Massive Roman Villa Found in British Backyard
One of the largest and best-preserved Roman homes ever found in Britain was discovered after a family decided they wanted to play ping-pong in their barn
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Help First Responders in Ecuador Without Leaving Your Desk
Scour satellite imagery of earthquake-stricken areas to help aid agencies decide where to go next
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Watch Earth’s Atmosphere Brilliantly Light Up From Space
The glow isn’t from an aurora, it’s a phenomena called airglow
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Los Angeles’ Skid Row Is Getting a Golf Course
It’s a hole-in-one for performers with a point to make about gentrification
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books
By turning down the case, the Supreme Court made a stand for fair use
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A New Exhibition Is All About Underwear
From a queen’s drawers to David Beckham’s briefs, The Victoria and Albert Museum gets “Undressed”
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Death Valley Has a Secret Shrine to…Tea
Take a kettle, leave a kettle at this remote junction
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Shackled Skeletons Unearthed in Greece Could Be Remains of Slaughtered Rebels
Three dozen skeletons in shackles may be the followers of Cylon, an Olympic champion who tried to take over Athens in 632 B.C.
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Vaccine Switch Marks a New (and Hopefully Last) Stage in the Battle With Polio
Over the weekend, health officials began replacing the current polio vaccination in an effort to wipe out one of three strains of the virus
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The Northeast Prepares for Swarms of Cicadas This Spring
Billions of red-eyed cicadas will emerge from the earth in much of the northeast this spring, part of a 17-year-cycle
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Your Body Could One Day Be a Computer Display
Forget screen time—a new technology is all about skin time
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New York’s Newest Urban Farm Floats
A barge bursting with vegetables takes to the water this summer
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This Perfume Smells Like the Apocalypse
Artists bottled blood and thunder to capture the heady scent of the end times
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Scientists Catalog Creatures in Every Corner of Los Angeles
In a huge citizen science project, scientists are turning to an urban environment to seek out biodiversity
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