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You'll have a tail to tell after visiting this North Carolina museum.

American South

North Carolina Has a House Cat Museum

You’ll want to paws for this roadside attraction

Cool Finds

Indonesian Village Turns Into a Rainbow to Attract Tourists

Every house and business in Kampung Pelangi is painted in bright rainbow colors

For Minneapolis art lovers, this huge painting needs no introduction—or title.

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Enormous Chicken Painting Comes Home to Roost

After years overseas, Doug Argue’s iconic portrait is back

Image on the original Pioneer 10 and 11 plaques

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Now You Too Can Own a Piece of Space History

The engraver who inscribed Carl Sagan’s and Frank Drake’s 1973 message to extraterrestrials is now taking orders

Ona Louise has a tale to tell.

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Drag Queens Are Public Libraries’ Newest Storytellers

Early reading just got a lot more glamorous

This smart tag contains synthetic DNA and other security measures to help authenticate and track the provenance of canvas.

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Can Giving Paintings Their Own DNA Stop Art Forgery?

Science is leading the charge against copycats

The taggers of the future aren't carrying cans of spray paint.

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Street Art Will Soon Take to the Skies with Graffiti-Painting Drone Swarms

Paint-loaded quadcopters can turn any vertical space into a canvas

Fanny Cornforth posted for "Lady Lilith" and other influential Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

Cool Finds

Newly Digitized Archives Reveal the Inner Lives of Artists

The Delaware Art Museum just put 500 rare documents online

Canada

Spectacularly Detailed Armored Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Makes Its Debut

A nodosaur found in Alberta includes some of the best preserved dino skin and armor ever found

Jessica Dawson regularly takes her pup Rocky along to explore New York Art galleries, as shown here at Lost Objects by Allan McCollum at the Mary Boone Gallery.

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An Upcoming Art Exhibition Caters to Canine Critics

Touching (and licking and sniffing) the art is allowed

Wanted: modern takes on a classic group of plays.

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Battle the Bard in Shakespeare Remix Competition

$25,000 is on the line—along with some serious bragging rights

The Klencke Atlas

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Massive Royal Atlas Gets Digitized

The magnificent Klencke Atlas is now available online courtesy of the British Library

The skull of Neo, one of the bodies found in the Lesedi Chamber

New Research

Ancient Human Cousin May Have Lived Alongside Early Homo Sapiens

Homo naledi may have been much younger—and more advanced—than previously thought

Tarsius spectrumgurskyae

New Research

Two New Species of Googly-Eyed Tarsiers Discovered in Indonesia

The tiny tree dwellers are the 80th and 81st primates discovered since 2000

Soon, Lucy Sparrow will open a full NYC bodega filled with only felt food.

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These Groceries Are Made of Felt

And artist Lucy Sparrow is opening an entire bodega full of them

For sale: a bit of romance.

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Paris’ Infamous Love Locks Will Now Help Migrants

The pesky padlocks are now removed from the bridge—and up for auction

Tim Caza assesses the boat.

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Shipwreck Identified as Rare Canal Boat

Durham boats once fueled trade in the Erie Canal

Handprint from Maltravieso Cave in Caceres, Spain.

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Project Is Making 3D Scans of Ancient Handprints

The Handpas Project is looking to unlock who made the prehistoric art and why

Blood Falls

New Research

Antarctica’s Blood Falls Helps Unravel the Inner Workings of Glaciers

A new study maps the path of the water that feeds the falls and explores how water can exist under the ice

The Museum of Migration tells the stories of the UK's immigrants.

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Museum of Migration Opens in London

The ambitious museum brings new perspective to a city shaped by immigrants

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