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The Rongorongo tablets may be older than previously thought.

Mysterious Writing System From Easter Island May Be Completely Unique

New radiocarbon dating reveals astonishing insights.

Colleen Kelly February 15, 2024

Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, found by Laura Kranich near the village of Ribbeck, Germany.

Germany Had 90 Minutes to Prepare for a Beach Ball-Sized Meteorite Impact

Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.

Meg St-Esprit February 6, 2024

I spy someone lurking in the whistling thorn acacia trees.

Ants Are Swarming Kenya’s Trees and Changing Everything for Lions

Even the smallest insect can impact the largest animals.

Jennifer Billock February 1, 2024

Chicken clucks give humans a window into the bird's emotions.

Do You Speak Chicken?

A new study shows most people can tune into how chickens are feeling based on their clucks alone.

Roxanne Hoorn January 9, 2024

Podcast: Knoxville Weather Kiosk

Before TV weather-people, there was the kiosk.

The Podcast Team December 12, 2023

Skull and linen wrapping of a mummified baboon recovered from Gabbanat el-Qurud, Egypt and connected genetically to coastal Eritrea.

Mummified Baboons in Egypt Point to a Long Lost Land

New discoveries of ancient DNA could help scientists find the land of Punt.

Sunny Fitzgerald November 21, 2023

geological oddities

An Entire Continent Went Missing—But Scientists Have Found It Again

Fear not, these geologists are good at their jobs.

Olivia Young November 2, 2023

Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville Weather Kiosk

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

Pretty dreamy, right?

Wuppertal's Beloved Floating Monorail Is Moving Again

Jessica Leigh Hester August 2, 2019

The circle is much, much younger than archaeologists thought.

It Turns Out That This 'Millennia-Old' Stone Circle Is Actually Only as Old as Millennials

It's a recent riff on an ancient Scottish tradition.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 23, 2019

Whoa, what's up with that?

What the Heck Was That Squiggle in the Sky?

No, it's not a chemtrail. Or space junk. Or aliens.

Jessica Leigh Hester December 20, 2018

The Thames mud can provide ideal conditions for the preservation of organic materials such as leather.

Found: Unfortunate 'Booted Man,' Who Met a Muddy End 500 Years Ago

The footwear would have been well-suited to tromping through the London mud that preserved it.

Anna Kusmer December 6, 2018

Catasticta sibyllae, named for Maria Sibylla Merian, is known from only two specimens.

natural history

A Rare and Striking Butterfly Is Named for a Pioneering Female Naturalist

Maria Sibylla Merian watched these beautiful insects more closely than anyone else of her time.

Sarah Laskow December 6, 2018

Why? How?

The Mysterious Phenomenon of Seals With Eels in Their Noses

The Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program found yet another pinniped with an unusual nasal inhabitant.

Sarah Laskow December 5, 2018

Bottles upon bottles of whiskey, neatly organized and hidden for a century.

For Sale: Pre-Prohibition Whiskey, Once Hidden in a Vault Behind a Bookcase

Sarah Laskow December 3, 2018

The entrance to Auschwitz.

Musical Arrangements Made at Auschwitz Have Been Uncovered in an Archive

Polish political prisoners played a song called “The Most Beautiful Time of Life" for the SS.

Sarah Laskow November 27, 2018

Smoke from the Woolsey Fire darkens the sky at Zuma beach in Malibu on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.

How Wildfire Smoke Drifts So Quickly

Scientists are able to predict its path.

Jessica Leigh Hester November 21, 2018

The mounds were once hidden by the forest.

Northeast Brazil Is Dotted With Millions of Enormous Termite Mounds

The soaring cones cover a landscape nearly the size of Great Britain.

Jessica Leigh Hester November 19, 2018