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Elephants in a 13th century manuscript.
science

Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?

Maybe not just because they didn't know what elephants looked like.
Sarah Laskow February 10, 2017
The final resting place of the inventor of the Pringle's can.
Cincinnati, Ohio

Grave of Fredric J. Baur

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.
Luecke from satellite view
Smithville, Texas

Giant 'Luecke' Signature

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.
USNO Master Clock
Washington, D.C.

USNO Master Clock

The most accurate timepiece in the world.
Bivoj might not be sleek, but she's powerful.
science

The World's Most Powerful 'Super Laser' Has Been Created

It's about the pulses, not the watts.
Eric Grundhauser January 26, 2017
Buildings of the SVR, Russia's external intelligence agency. What happens in these buildings are Russian state secrets.
Leninskiy rayon, Russia

The Kamera (The Chamber)

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.
Looking down onto the living room.
Baltimore, Maryland

The Scarpetta House

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.
The frozen sea goes north.
monks

The First Observations of Sea Ice Came From 8th-Century Irish Monks in Iceland

They were actually searching for God.
Sarah Laskow January 20, 2017
Fairy circles are found in Namibia.
science

Scientists Have a New Idea About the Origins of Namibia's Fairy Circles

Two competing theories could both be true: Termites and plants both contribute to the circles' creation.
Sarah Laskow January 18, 2017
A version of Saussure's cyanometer, published in 1790
objects of intrigue

A Scientist Invented the Cyanometer Just to Measure the Blueness of the Sky

Horace-Bénédict de Saussure wanted to climb a mountain and mark the sky's hue accurately.
Sarah Laskow January 17, 2017
A nuclear-powered submarine conducting a emergency surfacing, 1978
science

How the Navy Tried to Turn Bioluminescence Against the Soviets

They spent decades on it.
Sarah Laskow January 13, 2017
An artist's depiction of a star and exoplanet.
science

That's No Alien Megastructure, It's a Star Consuming a Planet

A new paper details a natural explanation for a star's strange behavior.
Sarah Laskow January 12, 2017
Entrance to the "Terra dos Gêmeos" (Land of Twins).
Cândido Godói, Brazil

Cândido Godói

The mystery of Brazil's "Land of Twins" has led to wild theories such as Nazi genetic experiments.
Bracewell Radio Sundial
Magdalena, New Mexico

Bracewell Radio Sundial

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.
Hubert Pearce and Dr. J. B. Rhine experimenting with Zener cards.
science

How One Man Used a Deck of Cards to Make Parapsychology a Science

Dr. Joseph Rhine believed that psychic powers could be studied—and that he had the tools to do it.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie December 27, 2016
An illustration of the Antares neutrino detector.
science

Why Scientists Sank a Telescope Into the Deepest Parts of the Ocean

The ANTARES underwater observatory is looking for particles from outer space, but it's also contributing to marine science.
Claudia Geib December 19, 2016
science

See What Your Blood Looks Like Under a Microscope

An intimate look at the substance that makes you, you.
Mariana Zapata December 8, 2016
Inside the National Ice Core Lab freezer.
Denver, Colorado

National Ice Core Lab

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.