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Kelsey Kennedy

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

Science journalist, former Atlas Obscura editorial fellow, Oregonian, road trip adventurer.
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RMS Lusitania.

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Another Piece of Lusitania Has Been Rediscovered and Raised

The ill-fated ship's engine order telegraph was found, then lost, then found.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Male (top) and female (bottom) sunburst cerulean-satyr butterflies are finally considered one species.

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DNA Barcoding Shows That Two Butterfly Species Are One and the Same

They're an extreme case of sexual dimorphism.

By Kelsey Kennedy
A Landslide Was the Culprit Behind a Massive Tsunami in Greenland

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A Landslide Was the Culprit Behind a Massive Tsunami in Greenland

This could be just the beginning.

By Kelsey Kennedy
An artist's depiction of B. americana, with its fossilized skull.

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Just After a Mass Extinction, This Toothy Fish Ruled the Seas

A new fossil shows it topped the food chain earlier than was once thought.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Fast-moving filament cloud structures on Venus.

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There Are Giant Standing Waves in Venus's Atmosphere

Something's in the air on our closest neighbor.

By Kelsey Kennedy
A billion-lightyear section of the simulated universe. The yellow clumps are dark matter concentrations, and white areas are cosmic void.

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Scientists Have Created a Virtual Universe to Practice Mapping the Real One

It took a computer 80 hours to generate 25 billion galaxies.

By Kelsey Kennedy
The dark blue area is the Diamantina Trench southwest of Perth. It is up to 26,401 feet deep.

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Explore the Seafloor With Data Collected During the Search for MH370

The Australian government has released the results of a survey of the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Lincoln's secretary, John Hay, in 1862.

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A Famous Letter Thought to Be Written by Lincoln Was Penned by His Secretary

N-gram tracing was used to reveal the author.

By Kelsey Kennedy
STS-1, the Space Shuttle Columbia, launching on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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NASA Just Released Hundreds of Historic Space and Aviation Videos

Watch the first space shuttle take off and an experimental aircraft set a speed record.

By Kelsey Kennedy
The model is an exact, scale replica of the damaged spillway.

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To Fix a California Dam, Engineers Are Putting a Giant Scale Model to the Test

Oroville Dam's spillway crumbled in February, and now California is racing for a fix.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Researchers studying the layers of silt in an Indonesian cave.

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A Sea Cave in Indonesia Contains a 5,000-Year Record of Tsunamis

Layers of silt show just how unpredictable earthquakes are.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Mars's northern hemisphere is smoother than its southern half.

science

A Large Asteroid Impact Might Explain Mars' Geological Nuttiness

Computer models suggest it was big enough to form the planet's two moons.

By Kelsey Kennedy
A Cuban crocodile.

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Endangered Cuban Crocodiles Are Being Reintroduced to the Wild

Keeping them separate from American crocs will be key to their survival.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Scenes From the Lives of the Desert Fathers (Thebaid) by Fra Angelico, 1420.

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Before Sloth Meant Laziness, It Was the Spiritual Sin of Acedia

And why early monks in the desert didn't want to fall asleep during the day.

By Kelsey Kennedy
This car's owner did not have a great day.

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There Was a Massive, Gross Slime Eel Spill in Oregon

The hagfish were on their way to South Korea.

By Kelsey Kennedy
There's a New Sunspot Larger Than Earth

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There's a New Sunspot Larger Than Earth

Things have been pretty quiet up there, so it was a surprise.

By Kelsey Kennedy
The Wartime Posters That Tried to Shame Soldiers Away From STDs

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The Wartime Posters That Tried to Shame Soldiers Away From STDs

“You can’t beat the Axis if you get VD.”

By Kelsey Kennedy
How Fire Ants Form Towers More Than 30 Ants High

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How Fire Ants Form Towers More Than 30 Ants High

And they circulate through the towers like water in a fountain.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, from high above.

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From Space, Bolivia's Salt Flats Look Like a Glitch

The geological feature is home to the largest lithium reserve in the world.

By Kelsey Kennedy
A pygmy rabbit snacking on clover after being rescued.

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These Endangered Pygmy Rabbits Survived a Wildfire by Heading Underground

Firefighters and biologists staged a rescue once the area was deemed safe.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Three new wolf pups play right in front of a trail camera.

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Meet California's Three Newest Wolf Pups

They were caught playing in front of a trail camera.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Glowing corals in the Red Sea.

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In the Deep, Corals Glow Red to Help Out Their Photosynthetic Tenants

And in the lab, they're helping cancer researchers, too.

By Kelsey Kennedy
A neighborhood in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, following an earthquake and tsunami in 1918.

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The Forgotten Documents of a 1918 Tsunami in Puerto Rico

They are helping scientists understand exactly what happened.

By Kelsey Kennedy
Solarum jamesii produces small spuds.

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Found: Evidence That Humans Have Been Eating Potatoes in North America for Over 10,000 Years

Some starchy residue in Utah came from a native potato.

By Kelsey Kennedy
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