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A new WHO report reveals that China has the most air pollution deaths per year.

New Research

Nine in Ten People Worldwide Breathe Dangerous Air Every Day

The WHO just released the most detailed air pollution report ever—and the results are sobering

This book of Grimm's Fairy Tales is entirely written using words with one syllable.

Cool Finds

Channel Childhoods Gone By With This Digital Archive of Victorian Children’s Books

From nursery rhymes to religious lectures, this digital archive shows how kids read in a bygone age

Alive or dead? You'll won't know until you peek inside.

New Research

Scientists Catch Schrödinger’s Cat on Camera

No cats were harmed in the making of this science

American soldier wearing gas masks in the trenches during World War I

Cool Finds

This Documentary Series Will Teach You About World War I in Real Time

A week-by-week approach to the Great War

New Research

New DNA Analysis Shows How Cats Spread Around the World

Felines spread in two waves including moving around Europe on Viking ships, according to researchers

The Wavertree, an 1885 tall ship, is back in New York's harbor after a 16-month-long restoration.

Cool Finds

An 1885 Ship Just Sailed Back to New York City

After a 16-month-long overhaul, the Wavertree has been restored to her former glory

This grocery store's shelves are lined with 100% wasted food.

Cool Finds

This Supermarket Sells Only Wasted Food

It’s a yummy solution to a worldwide problem

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China Switches on the World's Largest Radio Telescope

Measuring 1,640 feet across, the massive device will scour the skies for signs of life and new galaxies

Mall rats aren't the only animals to be found in China's gigantic shopping centers.

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Chinese Malls Are Filled With Sad Animals

As cities spread, so do depressing mall zoos

The statue of Lenin where it formerly stood on the roof of the Red Square building on E Houston Street.

Cool Finds

A Statue of Lenin Has Finally Come Down from Red Square...in New York City

One of Manhattan’s strangest buildings has lost its mascot

Dwight Eisenhower and Arnold Palmer smile before a round of golf at the Gettysburg Country Club in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1960.

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How Arnold Palmer and President Eisenhower Made Golf the Post-War Pastime

The charismatic, working-class golfer and beloved president made golf the sport of elites and middle-class duffers for a generation

A 19th century illustration of the zodiacal constellation Ophiuchus.

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NASA Didn’t Change Your Astrological Sign, Blame It on Earth's Wobbly Rotation

Astrology is not a science

This photo by Girma Berta on Instagram helped win the photographer a $10,000 grant.

Cool Finds

Getty Instagram Grant Winners Document the Drama of the Everyday

From teen moms to slices of street life

New Research

Watch Acoustic Holograms Create Complex Shapes and Levitate Droplets

These mesmarizing effects are created using only a plastic 3-D printed plate and speaker

Al Capone's criminal record in 1932. Despite a litany of charges, he ended up being nabbed for tax evasion.

Cool Finds

This Letter Tells What Al Capone Was Up to in Alcatraz

Two words: prison band

Cool Finds

New Movie Posters Turn Scientists Into Superheroes

The Center for Infectious Disease Research recasts the fight against disease in a series of movie and comic book-style posters

Alaska's yellow-cedar forests are slowly dying as climate change takes root.

Anthropocene

This Music Was Composed by Climate Change

Dying forests make magnificently melancholy listening

Celtic Shores, Nova Scotia.

Canada

Canada Is Building a Trail That Measures Almost 15,000 Miles

In 2017, the world’s longest trail will finally be complete

Aboriginal rock art at Ubirr in Kakadu National Park.

New Research

New DNA Analysis Shows Aboriginal Australians Are the World's Oldest Society

The group was the first to split after a single wave of migration out of Africa took place between 51,000 and 72,000 years ago, study shows

Cool Finds

Scientists Virtually Peek Inside Ancient Biblical Charred Scrolls

A completely burned Biblical text is now readable

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