ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Museum showcases landmark photographs
A little girl stares boldly at the camera, her head framed in a large white bow, her white…
New Theory of Smallest Human: Not a Hunter, but Eater of Lizard Leftovers
Who exactly was Homo floresiensis, the strange miniature hominins that once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores?…
Fujifilm Celebrates Japan’s Rich Photographic History
Ueno Hikoma, Nakashima River, Nagasaki, ca. 1872. Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative. | Collection: Fujifilm Corporation…
Scientists Unlock Hidden DNA From 1,300-Year-Old Manuscripts
Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to collect cellular material from historical parchment manuscripts, allowing them to conduct…
Whale graveyard with hundreds of fossils found deep beneath the Indian Ocean
A humpback whale became stranded on a sandbar in the Coolongolook River in New South Wales, Australia. Rescuers with…
How one woman made Vincent van Gogh, and the myth of the tortured artist, famous
When we think of tortured geniuses, few come to mind as quickly as Vincent van Gogh. Throughout his…
Why the West stopped making land
Some of America’s most famous land was reclaimed from the sea. The Lincoln Memorial, the World War II…
BLOODAXE Renewed for Season 2 Ahead of 2027 Premiere
⚡ Quick Take Prime Video has announced a season two renewal of Bloodaxe before the premiere of its…
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission and is still flying 49 years later, now so far away that in November 2026 a radio signal will take a full 24 hours to reach it — so when engineers say “good morning” on a Monday, the answer won’t arrive until Wednesday.
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn, and forty-nine years later, it…
‘Only death can stop me’: terminally ill Chinese tycoon works 12 hours daily to cure ALS
A former Chinese e-commerce executive in the final stages of a rare disease is still working 12-hour days,…
Man vs machine: Who will walk on Mars first?
NEXT STOP, SPACE 🚀: Artemis II is roaring into space on a mission to make history after liftoff…
Stephanie Shih’s site-specific still life at LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries
Stephanie Shih, “梅國 (Still life with chamoy and Dirty T Tamarindo),” 2025/2026. Archival pigment print on wood panel,…