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found

Found: A Tiny Letter Flown Out of Besieged Paris in a Balloon

ice

Fleeting Wonders: Stacked Shards of Ice On Lake Superior

botanical illustration

The Doomed Blind Botanist Who Brought Poetry to Plant Description

100 wonders

100 Wonders: Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral

computers

The Navy's Most Tenacious Enemy May Be Windows XP

crime and punishment

The Sober Truth About Field Sobriety Tests

feature

The Top Secret Cold War Plan to Bring the U.S. Under Martial Law

names

From 'Byzantine Hades' to 'Titan Rain', Cyber Attack Code Names are Sci-Fi Poetry

feature

Getting in the Minds of Murderers at London’s Hidden Crime Museum

feature

Has Any Human Lived As Well As Fidel Castro's Favorite Cow?

border crossings

A Photographer Investigates Life Along Russia's Vast Borders

migrations

Scientists Have Cracked The Mystery Of Where Puffins Winter

reincarnation

China’s Reincarnation Database Has Verified The Existence of 870 Living Buddhas. But How?

england

Video Wonder: Foot Fights at the World Toe Wrestling Championship

turkey

Fleeting Wonders: New Jersey Turkeys Go Postal On A Postal Worker

found

FOUND: Evidence That Jerusalem Is 2,000 Years Older Than Anyone Thought

columns

The Surprisingly Sticky Tale of the Hadza and the Honeyguide Bird

fraud

Enter Sandia Man: Revisiting the Site of a 20th Century Archeological Scandal