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Emotikis and New Keyboards Bring Indigenous Cultures to Text Messaging
From Maori emojis to First Nations languages
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Butterfly Drawings Take Flight in This New Book
A little-known fact: The author of “Lolita” was also an avid lepidopterist
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Are the Fancy New Curling Brooms Fair? Robots and Lasers Will Help Figure It Out
So-called “Frankenbrooms” are causing tension amongst the world’s curlers
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Bumblebees Detect a Flower’s Electric Buzz With Their Fuzz
Using the tiny hairs that cover their bodies, bees can tap into the weak electric field in the atmosphere
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Land of Oz Theme Park Will Temporarily Reopen Its Emerald Gates
This June, the yellow brick road will once again take you to see the Wizard
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Inside the Effort to Digitize Medieval Monks’ Chants
Scanning and interpreting centuries-old manuscripts is a challenge because musical notation wasn’t formalized yet
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Five Landmarks Threatened by Climate Change
Will a warming planet destroy humankinds’ most precious cultural treasures?
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Five Times the United States Officially Apologized
These are a few instances where the U.S. admitted it had done wrong
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The U.S. Nuclear Program Still Uses Eight-Inch Floppy Disks
Technological change takes forever to boot up
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Rome Is Looking for People to Adopt Famous, Falling-Apart Sites
When in Rome, pony up some cash for cultural preservation
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Tune Into the Smashing Sounds of Large Hadron Collider Data in Real Time
Grooves made by groundbreaking physics
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Surf Legend Builds Artificial Wave That Could Bring Surfing to the Masses
The World Surf League just bought Kelly Slater’s artificial wave technology, a move that could bring surfing to places like Nebraska
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The Longest, Deepest Train Tunnel in the World Is About to Open
It goes straight through the base of the Alps
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Dozens of Rare Documents From American History Just Sold at Auction
Original copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation just sold for millions
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Doctors Diagnose Diseases of Subjects in Two Famous Paintings
The doctor will frame you now
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Poverty Linked to DNA Changes That Could Lead to Mental Illness
Could a better understanding of the biomarkers of lower socieconomic status help raise kids out of poverty?
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Research Reveals More Complete Picture of the Devastation Wrought by the Black Death
By examining pottery remains in over 50 rural settlements, archaeologists now better understand the extent that the population was wiped out by the plague
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A Painting Georgia O’Keeffe Wanted Destroyed Is on Display for the First Time in Nearly 60 Years
O’Keeffe’s watercolor returns to the town where she painted it
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This Startup Wants to Open the 2020 Olympics With a Man-Made Meteor Shower
Could the only thing better than fireworks be fireworks launched from space?
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