Articles by Emma Jacobs

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Stories shared by this traveler.

Curators worried a fallout detection device in the Cold War-era bunker that now houses the Diefenbunker Museum might be radioactive. Instead, they found radiation coming from an everyday object in their collection.

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The Canadian Team on the Hunt for Radioactive Artifacts

Historic objects made with dangerous elements are lurking in museum collections.

Robert Falcon Scott’s 1902 Discovery Hut, at Hut Point, with Observation Hill in the background.

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Preserved Antarctic Huts Reveal the Isolated Existence of Early Explorers

They "were essentially stuck in their bunks for the whole winter."

Reels of nitrate films from the Cinémathèque Française, stored in a fort in Yvelines, France.

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Exploring the Haphazard Archive of a Paris Film Legend

Henri Langlois rescued thousands of rare reels, but was "famously bad" at caring for them.

Pieces of these phones have been washing up on a Brittany beach for more than 30 years.

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Solved: The 35-Year-Old Mystery of the Garfield Phones on a French Beach

A storm, a secret cave, and an ocean full of plastic.

Painting by Louis Béroud depicting copyists in the Louvre.

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Why 19th-Century Paris Had a Museum Full of Copies

Innovation and originality weren't yet in vogue.

Wall painting at Kapova Cave (Russia). The caverns here are an area of acoustic research for Reznikoff.

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With Archaeoacoustics, Researchers Listen for Clues to the Prehistoric Past

Investigators in this small, emerging field make noise in caves and measure resonance.