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Early space sustenance resembled baby food.

Scientists disagree on whether they're real or imagined.

They go viral roughly every 50 years.

...and make aviation history, of course!

LBJ, the Pentagon’s only passenger lift, and concern that a military coup was afoot.

A prehistoric snack is now thought to be a previously unknown species.

The laundry: a place to play, grow up, and live out memories both bitter and sweet.

The "bomb cyclone" is a linguistic specter from the 1940s that's gaining power in 2018.

You can't sculpt like Michelangelo, but you can eat like him.

Who says you can't shred a 1999 club classic on a tuberous ocarina?

Using 12 cameras and data visualization, this project animated Sir Simon Rattle's baton flicks at 120 frames per second.

The past, present, and future of footwear, from an expert charged with keeping soles intact.

The huts of Ahch-To exist here on Earth.

Winter cold means sightings of strange spheres on lake shores.

Baker Island, in the middle of the Pacific, is also the last place on Earth to ring in the new year.

Researchers studied 40 years of craniums on an island in Lake Superior.

Atlas Obscura readers wrote to us about their brightest personal moments from the year.

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