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It acts a lot like a bee.

From lost languages to rediscovered songs to music made by robots, the year certainly won't go quietly.

Who was Barbara van Beck?

Feed your feat fetish.

"Those who eat it will die in two hours."

Manny Medrano cut loose on spring break by analyzing a set of khipus.

Where did the pie and hot dogs go?

The livestock looked surprisingly geometric.

People have long tried to bend trees to their will, for both practical and aesthetic reasons.

For the first time, neural networks are imagining things they've never seen before.

One of them was entangled with a dinosaur feather.

See the creative costumes that mummers in St. John's wore this year.

You can learn a lot about someone from their accent.

Using 3-D imaging, Helen Glazer brings the southernmost continent indoors.

From super moons to Saturn's rings to distant galaxies.

Atlas Obscura is looking for the bright moments in a difficult year, and we need your help.

A decade-long plan is finally approaching fruition.

Madeira taxes stoked tensions, then paid for the war.