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For Brian Yazzie, the COVID-19 pandemic evokes a history of smallpox, European colonization, and indigenous resilience.

Feast your eyes or sharpen your brain, from a distance.

Seven virtual reconstructions offer a glimpse at the fortified past.

A training exercise in 1958 sent the USS Stickleback to the ocean floor.

The power of seeing and being seen, hearing and being heard.

The small Massachusetts outfit supplies local police, firefighters, and hospitals.

Gaze out the window or at your computer, in the name of data.

The sculpture was loathed as a public-art installation. Now its 4,000 aluminum birds are treasured in private collections.

3,000 years before the Aztecs, Mesoamericans were already playing ball.

Artists are bringing back Amabie, a 'yōkai' associated with protection from disease.

With a new filling and a new crust, an American innovator changed pie forever.

An online video raised a strange question: Do whale sharks make sounds? And would it matter if they did?

Including its old Victorian-era nails.

The chance encounter has led to insights on how insects make it to distant islands.

The token-size stones offer insight into life 20,000 years ago.

If you're cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more.

Turns out this big, striped lemur-eater didn't come from mainland Africa.

A preference for blending put the Great White North on the wrong side of industry standards.