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Christina Ayele Djossa

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A dynamite blasts in front of the damaged City Hall.

film

Lost Footage Filmed After the 1906 San Francisco Quake Finally Gets a Premiere

The scenes, shown in a silent-film museum, provide a new glimpse of the earthquake's aftermath.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
IV treatment helps Pillalamarri live another day.

forests

A Dying 700-Year-Old Banyan Tree Was Brought Back to Life With an IV

It's clinging to life drip-by-drip.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Building a historically accurate form is an intricate craft.

museums and collections

The Art of Dressing Mannequins in Rare and Historic Garments

It's not easy.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
The slaughterhouse dates back to the 1800s.

archaeology

Found: A 19th-Century Slaughterhouse Beneath a Former Nightclub

An abattoir was lurking under a popular student haunt in Edinburgh.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
At first, archaeologists believed the object to be a nut, it is really a burnt onion.

food

Found: 1,500-Year-Old Burnt Onion Linked to 'Sweden's Pompeii'

The ancient vegetable affirms a Swedish island's ties to the Roman Empire.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
A photo of one of the footprints (left) and a digitally enhanced image of it (right). The toe impressions and arch indicate that it is from a right foot.

archaeology

Found: 13,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Off Canada's Pacific Coast

They support a hypothesis that early people followed a coastal migration route into North America.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Mer-Neith-it-es being CT scanned.

mummies

Found: A 2,500-Year-Old Mummy in a Seemingly Empty Coffin

Surprise!

By Christina Ayele Djossa
With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

music

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

By mapping notes to letters, some musicians sneak secret words into tunes.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Now complete, the ancient artifact shows Hatshepsut's face.

ancient

Found: An Ancient Depiction of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut

A broken artifact sat in storage for over 20 years before an expert spotted the queen on it.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Have you seen this duck?

found

Found: A Giant Inflatable Duck, Lost at Sea

How do you lose a house-sized duck?

By Christina Ayele Djossa
The femur and tibia bones of a pterosaur.

reptiles

Found: Fossilized Pterodactyls With 30-Foot Wingspans

These prehistoric reptiles reigned over the skies 66 million years ago.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
The first look at an hispid hare in 34 years.

extinct animals

Found: A Rare Hare, Rediscovered in Nepal's Chitwan National Park

Thirty-four years after it was thought extinct, the hispid hare is alive and kicking.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Sumatran cascade tadpole with a suction belly.

science

Found: A New Frog Species Born With Suction-Cup Bellies

Tadpoles with "belly suckers" are wriggling around Sumatra.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Thulani Mabaso, former Robben Island prisoner, on the soccer field in Robben Island, South Africa.

prisons

From Apartheid-Era Inmate to Tour Guide—at the Same Prison

Thulani Mabaso spent six years in a cell at Robben Island. Now he’s back to show visitors around.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
The fairy lantern plant called Thismia neptunis was all but lost.

science

Found: A Tropical Plant Last Spotted Over 150 Years Ago

Thismia neptunis is back, and its alien looks were worth the wait.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Climbers landing on a glacier at Denali National Park & Preserve.

parks

The National Park Service Kindly Requests You Stop Leaving Your Poop on Denali

When in doubt, carry it out.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Left, artist William Jennings' fictional illustration of Cathay Williams; right, the monument to Williams in Leavenworth, Texas, by Eddie Dixon.

black history

The First (Documented) Black Woman to Serve in the U.S. Army

Cathay Williams, who posed as a man in order to enlist in 1866, leaves a legacy that’s open to interpretation.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Immortalizing Human Scents as Memory Perfumes

genetics

Immortalizing Human Scents as Memory Perfumes

Bodily odors are forever.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
A colony of Flavobacterium IR1 in a agar plate.

science

In the Future, We May Paint With Brightly Colored Bacteria

Researchers have cracked the genetic code behind nature's structural colors, allowing them to be replicated fast.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
A Himalayan Ski Trek competitor getting ready for a major descent in Muktinath, Mustang.

mountains

What Would It Take to Make Nepal the Next Great Ski Destination?

High hopes and high slopes, but few skiers.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Two large fossilized mammoth tracks.

science

The Stories Hidden in Fossilized Mammoth Footprints

What researchers uncovered when they analyzed 43,000-year-old tracks.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Heads up!

music

Bwaaat! How the Air Horn Made Noise in Pop Music

Pay attention.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
Someone about to roll some dice.

games

How the Design of Dice Evolved Over Time

2,000 years of dicey odds.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
A young man bursting out into laughter.

culture

Do We Code-Switch Our Laughter?

Laughing is not only contagious, but also contextual.

By Christina Ayele Djossa
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