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FOUND: Evidence That Stalin Analyzed Mao's Excrement

Sarah Laskow January 29, 2016

FOUND: A Cuneiform Text That Shows How Babylonians Used Geometry to Track Jupiter

Sarah Laskow January 28, 2016

Christa McAuliffe gets a weightlessness preview aboard the zero gravity aircraft. McAuliffe used some of her zero-G time to practice her lesson plans.

space exploration

Fleeting Wonders: Challenger Astronaut Christa McAuliffe's Lost Lessons

Cara Giaimo January 28, 2016

FOUND: Snow Leopards in Sikkim

Sarah Laskow January 28, 2016

Tuesday morning's Senate crew.

Fleeting Wonders: An All-Female Senate

Cara Giaimo January 27, 2016

space exploration

FOUND: The Largest Solar System Ever Discovered

Sarah Laskow January 27, 2016

This prescient still from the 1928 film Safety Last illustrates our current predicament.

Fleeting Wonders: Doomsday Clock Remains At 3 Minutes

Cara Giaimo January 26, 2016

FOUND: A New Beatrix Potter Story About a Cat with a 'Double Life'

Sarah Laskow January 26, 2016

A snow fly does its thing.

Fleeting Wonders: Winter's Toughest Bugs Have Antifreeze Blood

Cara Giaimo January 25, 2016

FOUND: A Human Skull in a L.A. Religious Shop

Sarah Laskow January 25, 2016

FOUND: The Stolen Statue of a Berkeley Crew Coach, Now Decapitated

Sarah Laskow January 22, 2016

Fleeting Wonders: Gold-Sprinkled Haggis With a $5,700 Price Tag

Cara Giaimo January 22, 2016

A Blizzard In This Part Of Canada Delays Exams For 6 Months

Dan Nosowitz January 21, 2016

The Cable Hut–once a war tool, now a romantic getaway.

Fleeting Wonders: Vacation In a WWI Cable Hut

Cara Giaimo January 21, 2016

FOUND: Evidence of Early Violence Between Foraging Humans

Sarah Laskow January 21, 2016

space exploration

FOUND: The New 9th Planet! (Maybe)

Sarah Laskow January 20, 2016

The submerged forest at Portreath, Cornwall.

Fleeting Wonders: A Petrified Forest Unearthed By A Beach Storm

Cara Giaimo January 20, 2016

FOUND: Desert Hot Spots Just for Microbes

Sarah Laskow January 20, 2016