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A Saturated Snapshot of This Year’s Holi Celebrations
Revelers are already soaking in shades of the spring festival
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Visit Richard III’s Gravesite With This Bone Chilling 3D Model
The ruler’s final resting spot is now publicly available for exploration online
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Here’s Why Some of Yosemite’s Iconic Landmarks Are Being Temporarily Renamed
The U.S. government is battling a private company for the rights to historic names
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This Polish Museum Exhibit Was Completely Curated By Kids
“Anything Goes” took six months and 69 children to create
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Bear Bone Adds 2,500 Years to History of Humans in Ireland
Carbon dating of a bear bone covered in cut marks pushes human habitation of Ireland back into the Paleolithic Era
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This News Website Is a Lakota-Speaker’s “Dream”
Woihanble.com could help preserve a threatened language
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Roald Dahl’s Iconic Illustrator Inspired This New Font
Quentin Blake’s handwriting has elements of spontaneity and joy
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Two New Flower Species Were Discovered Online
These naturalists didn’t know one another—but that didn’t keep them from discovering two new magnolias together
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A Pair of Comets Are Making a Record-Breaking Pass by Earth
This is the closest a comet has come in 246 years
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That One Time Eleanor Roosevelt Was a DJ
In 1957, the first lady spun records for a cause
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Blokes with Metal Detectors Uncover Pieces of British History
Finds by amateur history sleuths shed light on the time when Anglo-Saxons clashed with Vikings
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Tropical diseases and coal tar have a lot to do with brightly-colored clothing
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Storks Move to a Trashy Neighborhood
White storks in Portugal and Spain are forgoing thier annual migration to Africa to pig out in landfills
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Five New Things We Learned About Pluto This Week
A new set of studies paints Pluto as a weirder planet than scientists once thought
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New Study Details Interbreeding of Ancient Humans With Evolutionary Cousins
Genetic analysis shows multiple periods of inbreeding—trysts that may have given ancient humans the genetic tools they needed to survive
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Flesh-Toned Ballet Shoes Will Soon Be Available for People of Color
At long last, there are options for non-white dancers
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Watch a Statue of Lenin Being Torn Down in Real Time
It’s hard to topple a 66-foot statue—or contend with the symbols of Ukraine’s communist past
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Researchers Seek Silly Sherlocks to Dig up Victorian-Era Jokes
Joke detectives are using the British Library to uncover what made Victorians chuckle
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Washington D.C. Welcomes a New Baby Bald Eagle
With one chick hatched, there’s another still to come
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