hong kong
Remembering Hair-Raising Landings at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport
Turn right at the mountain.
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feats
How Humans Reached Australia 65,000 Years Ago
New research shows that they arrived far earlier than previously thought.
environment
The 'Warship' Made From Plastic Bottles
The oceans have a lot of trash in them.
linguistics
A Famous Letter Thought to Be Written by Lincoln Was Penned by His Secretary
N-gram tracing was used to reveal the author.
crime and punishment
The Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the '80s
By passing as a professor, James Richard Shinn made off with over $100,000 worth of books.
bees
The Family That Lives With Bees
They've shared a home for 12 years.
nasa
NASA Just Released Hundreds of Historic Space and Aviation Videos
Watch the first space shuttle take off and an experimental aircraft set a speed record.
elevation
Estonia Is Going to Grow Several Inches in a Single Day
When the country switches from Russian to European standards.
reservoir
Found: A Cavernous, 2,700-Year-Old Reservoir
Its entrance was decorated with engraved figures.
18th century
England’s Centuries-Old Fascination With Carving Giant Horses Into Hillsides
The country's unbridled enthusiasm for the trend even inspired the creation of the term “leucippotomy.”
dams
To Fix a California Dam, Engineers Are Putting a Giant Scale Model to the Test
Oroville Dam's spillway crumbled in February, and now California is racing for a fix.
disney
How a Group of '70s Radicals Tried (and Failed) to Invade Disneyland
The Yippies' takeover did not quite go to plan.
robots
The Memorial Honoring the Robot That Drowned Itself
RIP Steve.
crime
There's a Cheddar Theft Mystery in England
The best-in-show winner has been pilfered.
waves
A Sea Cave in Indonesia Contains a 5,000-Year Record of Tsunamis
Layers of silt show just how unpredictable earthquakes are.
storms
The 60-Mile 'Hail Scar' Left by a South Dakota Storm
Balls of ice cause hundreds of millions of dollars in crop damage each year.
video wonders
A Parthenon of Banned Books, Built at a Former Book-Burning Site
A replica of the Greek structure has been constructed out of forbidden titles.
fossils
A Kid Found a 1.2-Million-Year-Old Stegomastodon Fossil by Tripping Over It
It was a whole skull!
