Articles by Sarah Laskow

New imaging techniques are revealing texts that were erased hundreds of years ago.

One photo suggests that rampant rumors of submarine smuggling were true.

It was pregnant, too.

One early design, by the man who built Mount Rushmore, included a giant statue of Christ.

In the 19th century, 100,000 indentured laborers came to Peru from China.

For the third time this summer, melting Alpine glaciers have revealed the fate of missing hikers.

In the 17th century, delicious fresh crab dishes had certain dangers.

A team on a houseboat found the Vanzolini’s bald-faced saki in a Brazilian forest.

The math behind the magic.

The musician performs with shimmery beings of a species not quite our own.

What I learned while camping out with hundreds of people in the middle of the Oregon desert.

"We’re going to bring the sun back."

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Paul O'Connor explains the mind-boggling promise of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

Since the 1850s, gold miners have found about 600 diamonds in California.

That's 1.7 million years older than the previous oldest ice ever found.

And looking far across the universe.

Two college students bought six of them for $1.20.

Also, snails smaller than a grain of sand.

Usually you'd expect pictures or a note. Not morphine.

A new project is collecting recordings of public activism going back to 1991.

You can look into the face of a dinosaur.

Don't be afraid to belt out "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

A melting glacier revealed the frozen hands and feet of a man who disappeared in 1987.

These little-loved wetlands are a crucial front in the fight against climate change.