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Lightning over Lake Maracaimbo, November 2015

New Research

NASA Announces World's New Lightning Hotspot

The electric capital tops the charts with lightning storms 297 nights per year

A Chilean beach–before.

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Why Are Chilean Beaches Covered With Dead Animals?

Warm waters have turned the country's once-pristine coast into a putrid sight

Scarface is dead—long live Scarface.

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Yellowstone’s Most Famous Bear Is Dead

Who shot “Scarface”?

Tokyo is the world's largest city...for now.

Age of Humans

Five Things to Know About Megacities

Urbanization is happening fast—here's what to know about the world's largest cities

This 98-foot-long figure appears to represent an animal sticking out its tongue.

Cool Finds

“New” 2,000-Year-Old Geoglyph Spotted in Peru

There’s always more to learn about the mysterious Nazca lines

Switzerland

The Swiss Have Made Cheese Since the Iron Age

This discovery pushes Swiss cheesemaking traditions back millennia

Flashing lights embedded in the ground make crossing and texting safer in Augsburg.

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A German City Installed Traffic Lights For Texters

In Augsburg, distracted smartphone users don't have to look up to stay safe

Prince's Minnesota home and studio is known as "Paisley Park."

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Prince’s Paisley Park Studios Will Become a Museum

A la Graceland

The National Museum of Natural History is seen engulfed in fire at Mandi house on April 26, 2016 in New Delhi.

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Fire Devastates New Delhi's National Museum of Natural History

A late night blaze guts one of India's favorite museums, destroying valuable collections and exhibits

Cool Finds

An Israeli Brewery Recreated a 2,000-Year-Old Beer

Beer brewed as in Biblical times

A rainbow can be spotted in the mists of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. What better way to celebrate Earth Day than with an exploration of the planet's most colorful places?

Cool Finds

Celebrate Earth Day With a Rainbow of Spectacular Photos

Nature's palette is unparalleled

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This Artist Builds Tiny Rooms in Milan’s Forgotten Manholes

The seemingly whimsical project has a darker meaning

An Illustrated Map of Chicago, Youthful City of the Big Shoulders, Restless, Ingenious, Wilful, Violent, Proud to be Alive! by Charles Turzak, Boston, 1931. A whimsical map of the city including parks, planes, and even Lake Michigan sea monsters

Cool Finds

Eight Awesome Maps From Stanford's New David Rumsey Map Center

A collection of 150,000 historic maps merges paper and digital images in new ways

What the villa discovered in Wiltshire, England, would have looked like 1800 years ago

Cool Finds

Massive Roman Villa Found in British Backyard

One of the largest and best-preserved Roman homes ever found in Britain was discovered after a family decided they wanted to play ping-pong in their barn

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake decimated entire cities in northern Ecuador.

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Help First Responders in Ecuador Without Leaving Your Desk

Scour satellite imagery of earthquake-stricken areas to help aid agencies decide where to go next

This silk satin, lace and whalebone corset gave an 1890s lady her hourglass figure and tiny waist.

Cool Finds

A New Exhibition Is All About Underwear

From a queen's drawers to David Beckham's briefs, The Victoria and Albert Museum gets "Undressed"

Six miles to Racetrack, a million miles from civilization—except for the tea.

Cool Finds

Death Valley Has a Secret Shrine to…Tea

Take a kettle, leave a kettle at this remote junction

Boat or floating farm forest? Swale is both.

Cool Finds

New York’s Newest Urban Farm Floats

A barge bursting with vegetables takes to the water this summer

At least the scent of despair comes in a pretty bottle.

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This Perfume Smells Like the Apocalypse

Artists bottled blood and thunder to capture the heady scent of the end times

The Grand Entrance Hall to the Thames Tunnel has been restored and reopened to the public.

Cool Finds

Historic Sites of the London Underground Will Soon Open for Visitors

See Churchill’s blitz bunker and the first underwater tunnel ever built

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