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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.
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The scenes, shown in a silent-film museum, provide a new glimpse of the earthquake's aftermath.
forests
It's clinging to life drip-by-drip.
museums and collections
It's not easy.
archaeology
An abattoir was lurking under a popular student haunt in Edinburgh.
food
The ancient vegetable affirms a Swedish island's ties to the Roman Empire.
archaeology
They support a hypothesis that early people followed a coastal migration route into North America.
mummies
Surprise!
music
By mapping notes to letters, some musicians sneak secret words into tunes.
ancient
A broken artifact sat in storage for over 20 years before an expert spotted the queen on it.
found
How do you lose a house-sized duck?
reptiles
These prehistoric reptiles reigned over the skies 66 million years ago.
extinct animals
Thirty-four years after it was thought extinct, the hispid hare is alive and kicking.
science
Tadpoles with "belly suckers" are wriggling around Sumatra.
prisons
Thulani Mabaso spent six years in a cell at Robben Island. Now he’s back to show visitors around.
science
Thismia neptunis is back, and its alien looks were worth the wait.
parks
When in doubt, carry it out.
black history
Cathay Williams, who posed as a man in order to enlist in 1866, leaves a legacy that’s open to interpretation.
genetics
Bodily odors are forever.
science
Researchers have cracked the genetic code behind nature's structural colors, allowing them to be replicated fast.
mountains
High hopes and high slopes, but few skiers.
science
What researchers uncovered when they analyzed 43,000-year-old tracks.
music
Pay attention.
games
2,000 years of dicey odds.
culture
Laughing is not only contagious, but also contextual.