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Back When Americans Could Travel Freely to Cuba, Here’s What It Looked Like
The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1960
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The Cutest Climate Change Culprits: Arctic Ground Squirrels
By digging burrows in permafrost, Arctic ground squirrels help destabilize the vast stores of carbon in the soil
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America’s Best Butter Is Handchurned in Vermont
The price for perfection is $49 per pound
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When Sperm Meets Egg, Zinc Sparks Fly
Billions of tiny zinc particles explode from the surface of mammalian eggs when a sperm cell touches down
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The Turing Test of Computer Intelligence Is Too Easy
To better test our computer programs’ intelligence, we should to ask them for stories and drawings
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Why the Pantheon Hasn’t Crumbled
Ancient Roman concrete has some benefits over modern equivalents
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Making Dead People’s Pulses Beat Again
A new device can transform 150-year-old printed representations of heart beats into actual sound
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Now the Danes Have Staked a Claim for the North Pole, Too
The ultimate decision over who controls the North Pole will come down to the United Nations
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Pollution Is Turning the Taj Mahal Brown
Workers must periodically cover the Taj Mahal in clay to remove the pollutants stuck to its marble walls
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You Wobble Like No Other Person on the Planet
Analysis of the frame movements in footage from head-mounted cameras is just as unique as a fingerprint
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A Better Way Than Torture to Obtain Information: Acting Friendly
Friendly methods get information from suspects faster and more reliably, oh and they don’t violate human rights
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If You Looked Out the Window While Returning From Space, Here’s What You’d See
The bright glow of friction in Earth’s atmosphere
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There Are Probably Just Five Northern White Rhinos Left
The death of a captive rhino at the San Diego Zoo brings the species closer to imminent extinction
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China Just Opened the World’s Largest Water Diversion Project
An unprecedented engineering project sends water to China’s parched North
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Bad Hangover? Blame It (Partly) On Your Parents
Susceptibility to hangovers is partly due to genetics
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Killing Wolves Actually Leads to More Livestock Deaths
On the surface, killing wolves that kill sheep and cattle seems like a way to control predation, but the data paints a not-so-simple picture
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Found: The Wreckage of the SS City of Rio de Janeiro, the “Bay Area’s Titanic”
The maritime disaster was the worst in Bay Area history
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NASA Could Actually Get a Budget Boost Next Year
The pending budget will give NASA even more money than they asked for
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The Library for Magicians Is Taking Appointments
The Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York City houses some of the world’s rarest books on the art of deception
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