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It turns out, though, that utopia kind of sucks: the trash tubes ended up only getting as far as tiny Roosevelt Island.

The search for life on Mars continues.

For the past 40 years, programmers have been trying to train their computers on this deceptively-complex game.

You think one hour is bad? Europe's clocks were in chaos during the 1940s.

A new paper argues that courts need to keep up with technology, or risk angering our future overlords.

Hitler invented German roots for the greeting—but its history was already filled with fraud.

Keith Allen Johnson is a sculptor, Georgian, and Trump superfan.

For 10 cents, male patrons could hire taxi-dancers and try out the upper-class hobby of ballroom dancing.

Five specially-built robots "have failed to return."

The Matrera Castle seems to have lost its thousand-year-old dignity.

One critic called its atrium the "most pleasant interior public space" built in New York City in years.

Conkers has been played for over a century.

Help us identify this mysterious skittering creature.

An arson at a New Orleans gay bar is one of the worst LGBT mass murders in American history.

Mapping the tragic effects of the aerial bombardment on London’s landscape.

She's the Edward Scissorhands of the lobster world.

Two geologists were tipped off by a 90-year-old man who sheltered there during World War II.

Invisibility creeps closer to becoming a reality but we still don't know how to see out of it.