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A ceiling sculpted by Isamu Noguchi has been restored and is open to public viewing.

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A Modernist Sculpted Ceiling Was Uncovered in a U-Haul Showroom

The Isamu Noguchi work is being shown once again

Sisters Emilia Ponzoni, Regina Colombo, Concetta Finardi and Luigia Panceri mapped the positions and brightness of 481,215 stars.

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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

New Research

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

Authentic "Derby-Pie"

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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

Lightning over Lake Maracaimbo, November 2015

New Research

NASA Announces World’s New Lightning Hotspot

The electric capital tops the charts with lightning storms 297 nights per year

Mary Kies' patented technique wove silk and straw together to make fetching bonnets like this 1815 specimen.

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Meet Mary Kies, America’s First Woman to Become a Patent Holder

Brains plus bonnets equal a historic first

The diarist's hiding place will soon come to life in Anne, a virtual reality film.

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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”

A Chilean beach–before.

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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

An illustration of the path Mercury will take across the sun on  May 9.

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For The First Time in a Decade, Watch Mercury Cross the Sun’s Face

Next week’s transit of Mercury is one of the major astronomical events of the year

Lee Harvey Oswald, center, handing out fliers. According to a conspiracy theory floated by the National Enquirer, the unidentified man on the left wearing a black tie is the father of Senator Ted Cruz.

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A Brief History of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Connection to Cuba

For over 50 years, conspiracy theorists have linked JFK’s assassin to Fidel Castro’s Cuba

Don't worry...there's more than enough cheese to go around.

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The U.S. Has a Massive Cheese Surplus

Imagine 1.19 billion pounds of cached cheese

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Marines Are Investigating the Identity of a Flag Raiser in the Iconic Iwo Jima Photo

Amateur historians have called into question the identity of a soldier in Joe Rosenthal’s 1945 Pulitzer prize-winning image

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Mountaineers Have Discovered the Bodies of Alex Lowe and David Bridges

The climbers died in an avalanche on Shishapangma in 1999

Scarface is dead—long live Scarface.

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Yellowstone’s Most Famous Bear Is Dead

Who shot “Scarface”?

The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava after it was decimated by a fire on Orthodox Easter.

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A Historic Cathedral in New York City Goes up in Flames

The Cathedral of St. Sava caught fire just hours after the Orthodox congregation celebrated Easter

The Hale Crater on Mars, one area where slope lineae occur

New Research

Boiling Water Could Explain Mysterious Dark Streaks on Mars

Researchers simulate some of the Red Planet’s unique features in an Earth-bound chamber

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