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A Neapolitan pizza maker.

italy

The Traditional Pizza Making of Naples Now Has Heritage Status

Good news for Neapolitans, however you slice it.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
December 7, 2017
The DNA the students collect can be used to search for invasive species and serve as a baseline for future work.

genetics

The Teen Detectives Using DNA to Stalk Invasive Fish

Aquatic forensics might help target eradication efforts before things get out of control.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
December 7, 2017
A snowy owl snacking.

migrations

The Snowy Owls Are Back in Town

Them wild-eyed birds that had been away.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
December 7, 2017
Gazing out the window on a metal bird.

umami

How Sound Affects the Way You Taste Food on Airplanes

Food and drinks taste different in the air, so airlines are creating soundscapes to shape taste.

Paula Mejia
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
A well-known city, viewed in Morphology.

maps

How Far Can You Abstract a Map?

Morphology, an exploratory cartographic tool, turns the whole world into swoops and lines.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
A single pound of honey is the lifetime work for about 768 bees, made up of visits to two million flowers.

philosophy

What Is It Like to Be a Bee?

A philosophical and neurobiological look into the apian mind.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition

explorers

Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition

In the early 1920s, 23-year-old Blackjack endured a two-year stay on frosty Wrangel Island.

Tessa Hulls
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
A slate whetstone found during railroad construction.

alphabets

Found: A Runic Inscription on a Viking Whetstone

Experts in Norway are asking the public to help tell if it is a name or something more sinister.

Vittoria Traverso
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
Lindsay Arvin samples pine needles.

elemental

Mountain Trees Love Dust

A new study highlights how the nutrients in dust feed plants along the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
The cover illustration from PIM issue #19, "Technique"

literature

Small Talk With the Editor of One of the World's Tiniest Art Magazines

For almost four decades, Public Illumination Magazine has been packing a ton of absurdity into a little package.

Eric Grundhauser
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
A Navy medical library, 1902.

manuscripts

13 Wonderfully Specific Libraries Reveal Their Oldest Treasures

We asked these unique libraries about their oldest holdings and got delightfully diverse answers.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
The jade cabbage, in all its glory.

food art

In This Museum Full of Treasures, The Most Popular Attraction Is a Tiny Cabbage

But it's fit for an emperor.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889.

news

Misery Doesn't Seem to Improve the Quality of Art

Under scrutiny, the image of the tortured genius appears to fall apart.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
December 6, 2017
Road Canyon is one of the sites within the old borders of the National Monument.

national monument

Demystifying the Changes to Bears Ears National Monument

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Natasha Frost
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
After decades of discussion, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was hauled to higher ground.

weather

The Bumpy Business of Hauling Historical Sites to Safety

When trying to outrun erosion and sea-level rise is the best option.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
Dalí at work.

salvador dali

Behold Salvador Dalí's Recently Republished Wine Bible

The 1977 manual features hundreds of surreal illustrations.

Paula Mejia
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
Two views of colorful but lethal: Apheloria polychroma.

new species

Found: A Millipede With 6 Colorways and a Cyanide Coating

A bright, shining example of "predator education."

Vittoria Traverso
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom

lenin

How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom

The fake news that took the former Soviet Union by storm.

Eric Grundhauser
Atlas Obscura
December 5, 2017
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