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A 3,000-year-old clay pot with cheese residue found burnt to the bottom

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Archaeologists Find Ancient Pot With Traces of 3,000-Year-Old Burnt Cheese

This ancient mishap gives researchers a peek into Bronze Age life

The Survivor Tree was returned to the WTC in 2015.

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Saplings From the 9/11 Survivor Tree Are Headed to Paris, San Bernardino and Orlando

The tree is a powerful symbol of resilience and life, even in the most tragic circumstances

A Fresnel lens from the Boon Island Lighthouse off of southern Maine.

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The U.S. Government Is Suing for a Set of Lighthouse Lenses

The lenses could be worth up to $600,000

A rendering of the 10-ton block of ice.

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Watch a 10-Ton Ice Cube Melt on a Seattle Square

It’s a different kind of block party

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Four Finds from University of Kansas’ Collection of Radical Zines

The university’s Solidarity! Radical Library boasts a collection of almost 1,000 alternative papers

"Shotgun Seamstress"

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The New York Public Library’s Radical Zine Collection Is Now on Display

Check out pamphlets from people like Noam Chomsky and Mumia Abu-Jamal

Kayak may be the best way to explore the climate change memorial of the future.

Anthropocene

What Will the Memorials of the Future Look Like?

From underwater trees to mechanical parrots, the memorials of tomorrow don’t look much like the ones that exist today

Magritte apparently recycled a lost painting to create The Human Condition.

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Curators Are One Piece Closer to Solving the Mystery of Magritte’s Missing Painting

The Enchanted Pose is coming back from the dead—one painted-over quarter at a time

The low wages in the neighborhoods around Hull House can be seen in these maps, which illustrate income based on household. Each square shows an apartment building, and incomes are shown on the legend below. Black squares earned just $5 a week or less.

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These Early Infographics Illustrated the Plight of America’s Poor

Florence Kelley used hard numbers to effect change

The Billion Oyster Project is trying to help restore oysters to New York City's waterways.

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Thousands of Toilets Submerged in NY Harbor Go From Bathroom Throne to Oyster Home

It’s much too soon to eat them, though

The fragile crystals are created when alcohol dries.

Art Meets Science

These Stunning Images Capture the Unseen Beauty of Booze

Drink to the magic of polarized light microscopy

Babe Ruth pitching for the Boston Red Sox

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This Digital Collection of Babe Ruth’s Scrapbooks Is a Piece of Home Run History

The Baseball Hall of Fame is sharing its collection with the internet

OSRIS-REx

Trending Today

Watch OSIRIS-REx Head to the Cosmos to Grab a Scoop of Asteroid Dust

Today, NASA will launch the spacecraft which will travel to the nearby asteroid Bennu

The Chandos portrait is the only-known painting of Shakespeare made during his lifetime.

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Cleaning This Portrait Could Change the Way Historians See Shakespeare

The only portrait of the Bard made while he was alive might be getting touch-ups

The Mary Rose undergoing restoration.

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Explore Skulls and Artifacts From a 16th-Century Warship

The Mary Rose was the pride of Henry VIII’s fleet before it sank at sea

This shopping bag was designed by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and handed out to shoppers in front of department stores around New York in 1964.

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Fuel Your Design Obsession With 200,000 Newly Digitized Artifacts

Explore 30 centuries of design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum without leaving your computer

The design of the 2016 Brussels Flower Carpet was based off of Japanese patterns.

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Don’t Miss These Dazzling, Iconic Flower Festivals

No matter the time of year, it’s always time for a flower festival

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Awesome New Maps Show Alaska in High-Resolution Detail

The ArcticDEMs are the first set of detailed elevation maps of the Great White North

Twin puppies Cullen and Romulus

New Research

Identical Twin Puppies Confirmed for the First Time

Two Irish wolfhounds from South Africa shared the same placenta and have the same genetic makeup

The tiny pterosaur from the late Cretaceous was no bigger than a cat and sported a five-foot wingspan.

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Two Pterosaur Finds Are Helping to Untangle Their Family Tree

An intact skull and a pint-sized species offer clues to how these creatures evolved

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