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A new $1.5 billion cleanup effort is underway, targeting its "black mayonnaise" of pollutants.

Three elderly women are teaching the music of these famed fisherwomen.

New Zealand’s repatriation program brings human remains back and lays them to rest.

They tell a ground-level story of how peaceful movements led to social change, and how much remains to be done.

Wilson Bentley was the first to claim that each snowflake is unique—and provided evidence.

The crap covered up cartouches and constellations.

From fairy tale towns to torture devices to absurd attractions.

Researchers are working to uncover whether ancient objects in South Africa were once used to make noise or music.

India's "plantain man" has traveled widely to build a collection of unusual varieties.

Her creations go way beyond apple pie.

In a Wisconsin basement, two Labradors learned to detect tiny aquatic hitchhikers.

A photographer captured the handmade, the unusual, the downright puzzling.

Walter Scott wrote fantasies about medieval Saxons—just the thing for Jazz Age Angelenos.

It is an artifact of devotion, wealth, and empire.

David Maxwell's hobby has become essential to the field.

They whiled away the dark months with poetry, banjos, and Russian grammar—and you can, too.

Matthew Moore captures places where monuments once stood—and then finds the statues as well.

Bake an old-timey cake from this handwritten cookbook.