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A helicopter drops approximately gallons of water from a “Bambi Bucket” on to the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska, June 17, 2015.

Watch Wildfire Smoke from Alaska and Canada Envelop the Arctic

Here’s why that’s bad

July 23, 2015

Cool Finds

The International Olympic Committee Just Rescued Its Priceless Video Archive

Seven years and 100,000 hours of work later, the IOC’s archive has been digitized and preserved

July 23, 2015

43 camps nationwide teach teens white hat hacking skills

July 23, 2015

Cool Finds

You Can Pay for This Transylvanian Music Festival in Blood

Dracula would totally approve of this payment system

July 22, 2015

Could a crusade to bring historic women into the park change the face of the city?

July 22, 2015

Two decades later, American students grab brag-worthy math title

July 22, 2015

Pets and livestock will soon travel in high style through JFK

July 22, 2015

The Oldest Bald Eagle in the U.S. Was Killed by a Car Last Month

Here’s to you, 629-03142

July 21, 2015

In early July, Sentinel-2A captured this image of the Sahara in central Algeria.

Cool Finds

See the Algerian Sahara From Space

It’s pretty spectacular

July 21, 2015

New Research

Think Ocean Water is Gross? Sand Is Way Grosser

New research shows that microbes take longer to decay in sand than at sea

July 21, 2015

More telescope time, better equipment could help scientists figure out what’s out there

July 21, 2015

Cool Finds

In the 1960s, One Man Took Washington D.C.’s Rat Problem Into His Own Hands, Literally

And challenged the city’s race and wealth divide in the process

July 21, 2015

Screen shot from "The Whale Warehouse - AudioVision Ep. 1" via Vimeo

Cool Finds

In L.A. There’s a Warehouse Filled with Whale Bones

A video offers a tour of the Whale Warehouse, which holds a large part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s marine mammal collection

July 20, 2015

1924 Doble steam car at the Henry Ford Museum

Cool Finds

Here’s What Steam-Powered Cars Were Like Before the Combustion Engine

The Doble brothers’ built a beautiful steam car in 1924 but mismanagement kept it from being a financial sucess

July 20, 2015

A shadowy scene from F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922).

Someone Stole the Skull of ‘Nosferatu’ Director F.W. Murnau

Thieves left behind traces of wax, suggesting occult practices might be at play here

July 20, 2015

New Research

The Oldest Fossilized Animal Sperm Comes From a Worm That Lived 50 Million Years Ago

The discovery points to a new way that microscopic critters might be preserved in the fossil record

July 20, 2015

On July 13, Barnum's American Museum was the site of a disastrous fire.

Cool Finds

150 Years Ago, a Fire in P.T. Barnum’s Museum Boiled Two Whales Alive

Attracting tourists and locals alike, the museum mixed freakshow performers with educational collections

July 20, 2015

New Research

What Makes Some Screams Scarier Than Others?

Shrieks of fear share sound qualities with car alarms

July 20, 2015

Cool Finds

One Man Packed and Shipped Over 700 Pounds of Boston Snow This Year

But they refused to ship snow to anyone in Massachusetts

July 20, 2015

Silly humans, Pluto is a dog, not a planet.

Of Course Some People Think NASA’s Pluto Pictures Are Fake

Or at least doctored to exclude evidence of alien life.

July 20, 2015