How the soon-to-reopen Folger Shakespeare Library came to be

Ancient Maya Royals’ Remains Were Burned in a Public Ceremony to Mark a New Political Regime

NASA’s Orion Capsule Heat Shield Wore Away in More Than 100 Places During 2022 Test Flight, Posing ‘Significant Risks’ A new report highlights safety issues that NASA must address before using the spacecraft to send astronauts to the moon, and the agency is already working on fixing the problems.

Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair

A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades

Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets From Frozen Tissues in Conservation Effort

Microplastics Are Contaminating Ancient Archaeological Sites

Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute

When MIT and Quaker Oats conducted experiments on unsuspecting young boys

Myths about the Anthropocene

Canoes discovered northwest of Rome are oldest boats ever found in Mediterranean

Florida Fish Are Mysteriously Dying After 'Spinning and Whirling,'

Why Were So Many Renaissance Portraits Multisided?

Why birds survived and dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid hit earth (2020)

Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022)

The Wide Awakes: A 19th century club of cape-wearing anti-slavery activists

Century-old stone "tsunami stones" dot Japan's coastline (2015)

These Small Birds Flutter Their Wings to Say ‘After You’ to Their Partner

Plastics Contain Thousands More Chemicals Than Thought, and Most Are Unregulated

Why Scientists Are Calling for the Moon to Be Better Protected from Development

Researchers found that boiling tap water for just five minutes—then filtering it after it cools—could remove at least 80% of its microplastics

Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize

Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years

Ancient Texts Can Shed Light on Auroras

World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip

The world’s smallest vertebrate is a tiny brazilian frog: the male individuals, which are smaller, measured 7.10 millimeters long on average

A decades-long art forgery scheme

These 3,000-Year-Old Treasures Were Forged From Meteoritic Iron

Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States

Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age

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