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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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Historic Sites of the London Underground Will Soon Open for Visitors
See Churchill’s blitz bunker and the first underwater tunnel ever built
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Historians Identify 35 Descendants of Leonardo da Vinci
Using historical documents and genealogical detective work, researchers have reconstructed 15 generations of Leonardo’s family tree
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A Construction Crew Uncovered the Grave of One of Mexico’s First Catholic Priests
The 16th-century grave was found at the site of an Aztec temple
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Your High-End Perfume Is Likely Part Whale Mucus
A single pound of “whale vomit” can be worth tens of thousands of dollars
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Five Fascinating Places to Visit This Obscura Day
Atlas Obscura celebrates all things weird and wonderful worldwide this Saturday
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Lawyers Who Made the Birthday Song Public Domain Take Aim at Civil Rights Anthem
A group of filmmakers want to remove the copyright from “We Shall Overcome”
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Scientists Discovered Exoplanets More Than 70 Years Earlier Than Thought
A 1917 glass plate discovered in an observatory archive records the first evidence of exoplanets
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