Cool Finds

Iggy Pop Bares More Than Abs in New Art Exhibition About Masculinity

Punk meets pencil in an art show that examines the portrayal of masculinity throughout the centuries

October 21, 2016

Cool Finds

Italy Has a Free Wine Fountain

Quench your thirst with what could be the world’s most welcome glass of wine

October 21, 2016

Cool Finds

First Dinosaur Fossils Discovered in Alaska’s Denali National Park

Paleontologists found four small fragments of dino fossils, proving the acidic soil 70 million years ago could have preserved bones

October 20, 2016

New Research

Cave Paintings Help Unravel the Mystery of the ‘Higgs Bison’

The hybrid bovine has been a missing link in the ancestral tree of modern European bison

October 19, 2016

Cool Finds

How Many Comedy Writers Does It Take to Help A.I. Tell a Funnier Joke?

Jokesters from Pixar and the Onion are on the case to make artificial intelligence seem more human

October 19, 2016

Cool Finds

What to Know About NASA’s Historic Astronaut Beach House

The famous bungalow is on track to be repaired by 2018 when SpaceX is hoped to launch humans into space once again

October 19, 2016

Art Meets Science

Prize-Winning Photos Capture the Big Beauty of a Microscopic World

Nikon’s Small World Photography Competition celebrates the gorgeous details of nature

October 19, 2016

Cool Finds

A Skeleton Found in a Castle Could Be the Key to Cracking a 17th-Century Cold Case

A murder mystery complete with royal intrigue

October 18, 2016

New Research

Uranus May Have Been Hiding Two Moons

Researchers spotted ripples in the planet’s rings, which may be tracks left from two tiny moons

October 18, 2016

Cool Finds

Reach Out And Touch This Version of Klimt’s “Kiss”

A 3-D printed version of the classic painting lets blind people appreciate the artwork

October 17, 2016

Cool Finds

New Art Exhibition Celebrates 5,000 Years of Syria’s History

Syria is more than just a refugee crisis

October 17, 2016

New Research

There Are Ten Times as Many Galaxies as Previously Thought

By these latest estimates, two trillion galaxies are scattered throughout the vast universe

October 14, 2016

New Research

Did the Greeks Help Sculpt China’s Terra Cotta Warriors?

New analysis and DNA evidence suggests the 8,000 life-sized figures in emperor Qin Shi Huang’s necropolis owe their inspiration to the Greeks

October 14, 2016

Cool Finds

Discover One of History’s Most Ambitious Maps

Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map was the oldest document to use “America” to describe the body of land between Africa and Asia

October 13, 2016

Cool Finds

Capsules Reveal Once Highly Classified Pieces of WWII Air Campaign

Two shipping barrels opened by the Commemorative Air Force contain one of the more intriguing technologies of the second world war

October 13, 2016

Cool Finds

Australian Researchers Brew Beer With Yeast Believed to Be from a 220-Year-Old Shipwreck

A glimpse into the boozy past

October 12, 2016

Cool Finds

How Virtual Reality Is Helping Prosecute Nazi War Criminals

A new, detailed 3D simulation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp is helping prosecutors build stronger cases against these still-living Nazis

October 11, 2016

Cool Finds

1,600-Year-Old Feast Unearthed in Alberta

Archeologists at Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo Jump have excavated a rare roasting pit with the meal still left inside

October 11, 2016

Cool Finds

This Is What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like

A bygone age comes back to life in this painstaking reconstruction of the sounds of 1739

October 7, 2016

Cool Finds

“Extinct” Variety of Tree Rediscovered at Queen’s Palace in Scotland

Two Wentworth elms identified at Holyroodhouse escaped Dutch elm disease, which destroyed millions of other trees

October 6, 2016