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A Lucky Artist Will Be Marooned on a Deserted Island
An artist-in-residence program invites applicants to consider spending a month alone in paradise
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This Library Has Books Checked Out by Hamilton and Burr
The New York Society Library was wide enough for both men
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As U.S.-Cuba Relations Warm, This Long-Dead Author Benefits
A new conservation facility is on its way to Hemingway’s home near Havana
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Mongolia Adopts Address System That Uses Three-Word Names
What3words’ geo-coding system divides the Earth’s surface into 57 trillion squares, and assigns each a unique, memorable string of names
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Check Out NASA’s Retro Mars Recruitment Posters
Farmers, teachers, surveyors and engineers will all be needed in the envisaged Mars settlement
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A New Hitch in the Plan for Building a Space Elevator
Carbon nanotubes may not be as strong as scientists once thought
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New Agreement Will Help Protect the Amazon Basin
Earth’s largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies
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The Expanded Tate Modern Opens Its Doors Friday
The museum is being called the UK’s most important new cultural building since the British Library
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One Day Only: A Chance to View One Map to Rule Them All
A rare Tolkien-annotated map goes on display June 23
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This New York Project Wants You to Write on the Walls
Writing On It All gives voice—and a pen—to one and all
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Laser Scans Reveal Massive Khmer Cities Hidden in the Cambodian Jungle
Using Lidar technology, researchers are discovering the extent of the medieval Khmer empire
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One of the World’s Most Colorful Places Is in Taiwan
Rainbow Family Village shows there’s nothing a man with a paintbrush can’t do
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Turf cutters in Ireland regularly find chunks of butter deep in the nation’s peat bogs. What is the stuff doing there?
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Grand Canyon Turns Down Its Lights to Become a Dark Sky Park
Star gazers, rejoice—the skies above the Grand Canyon will never lose their sparkle
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The Library of Congress Needs Your Help to Identify These Silent Movies
For the fifth year, the “Mostly Lost” film festival calls on its audience to help identify obscure details in movie-making history
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Archaeologists Find Gigantic Ancient Monument in Jordan
In the ancient city of Petra, Google Earth and drones helped uncover remnants of a platform the size of an Olympic swimming pool
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This New Satellite Project Helps People Find Patterns in City Spaces
Terrapattern turns a mad world into a satisfying, matchy-matchy nirvana
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Parisians Are in an Uproar Over Their New Newstands
Paris’ iconic kiosks are being updated and replaced
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Vandals Destroyed 8,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Artworks in Tasmania
The priceless rock art is damaged beyond repair
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Olympics Allows Refugees to Compete on Their Own Team
Ten refugee-athletes from Syria, Sudan, Ethiopia and the Republic of Congo will compete at the Rio Olympics
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