Cool Finds

How Contact Lenses Were Made in 1948

Would you put this on your eye?

This Norwegian Modern Art Museum Is Also a Bridge

An ingeniously twisted design blends art with infrastructure

Giant guitarfish (Rhynchobatus djiddensis)

Instead of Eyelids, This Fish Retracts Its Eyeballs

The giant guitarfish can pull its eyes nearly 1.6 inches inside its head

Arctic Explorers Uncover (and Eat) 60-Year-Old Food Stash

Tins of jam and crackers hidden in Greenland’s Arctic desert made for a delicious surprise

There’s an Elephant Buried Underneath the Vatican

The forgotten remains of a beloved, 16th-century papal pet

Great Scott! Stanford Invented a Self-Driving DeLorean Just in Time for Back to the Future Day

But does it use 1.21 gigawatts of electricity?

Was this article written by a data-driven word processing machine...or a robot?

The Robo-Journalists Are Coming

But did a machine write this story?

This Giant Van Gogh Painting Is Made of Pumpkins, Watermelons and Squash

How crop artist Stan Herd made an acre-wide ode to "Olive Trees"

Air Force One is Getting a Makeover

The best presidential perk is about to get even better

The IceCube Lab with a picture of neutrino data superimposed

The Search For Elusive Neutrinos in Antarctica Generates Massive Amounts of Data

The IceCube observatory at the South Pole collects roughly 36 terabytes of data a year in the search for 'special' neutrinos

Screenshot from Histography 

This Is What 14,000,000,000 Years of History Looks Like

A designer's ingenious timeline covers the Big Bang to the Internet

Edith Wharton had presumably outgrown her rattle by the time this photo was taken in 1877.

For Sale: Edith Wharton’s $16,500 Baby Rattle

Fanciest. Teething device. Ever.

Lego Superfans Built This Epic Model of Hadrian's Wall

The edge of the Roman Empire, recreated with tiny toy blocks

Cebreros station

Falcons Protect This Deep Space Antenna

Nesting birds and their droppings can keep space scientists’ telescopes from getting a clear signal

Cameras captured snowy craters scattered across the moon's north side.

Stunning New Views of Enceladus, Saturn's 6th-Largest Moon

A new flyby has revealed a spidery network of cracks crisscrossing its northern pole

A honey bee’s eye dusted with pollen from a dandelion pollen magnified 120 times won 1st prize in the 2015 Nikon Small World competition.

See at a Bee’s Eye Level With 9 Award-Winning Microscopic Photos

The winners of Nikon’s annual photomicrography competition have an eye for detail

Francis Bacon, social networking superstar, strikes a pose ca. 1618.

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Is Your New Favorite Trivia Game

Move over, Kevin!

This Halloween, Who Wants to Spend a Night in the Paris Catacombs?

Airbnb is looking for two brave souls to sleep with the dead

There's a Fake Egyptian City Buried in California

The incredible, nearly forgotten story behind one of Hollywood's most expensive movie sets

A photographer with Reuters, Finbarr O’Reilly, in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province during 2011

The Technical Challenges of Photojournalism in a War Zone

A short documentary reveals what it's like to work in Afghanistan

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