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This Vincent van Gogh Painting Was Found Wrapped in an Ikea Bag and a Blood-Stained Pillow. Now, the Artwork Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory image
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring on display before the restoration (Robin van Lonkhuijsen / ANP / AFP via Getty Images)

This Vincent van Gogh Painting Was Found Wrapped in an Ikea Bag and a Blood-Stained Pillow. Now, the Artwork Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory
Art sleuth Arthur Brand recovered “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” in 2023, three years after it was stolen from a Dutch museum. Following careful restoration, the canvas is now back on display
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A Dizzying Spiral Staircase With a Single Guardrail Once Led to the Top of the Eiffel Tower. Now, You Can Buy 14 of the Original Steps image

A Dizzying Spiral Staircase With a Single Guardrail Once Led to the Top of the Eiffel Tower. Now, You Can Buy 14 of the Original Steps
The Antilla Shipwreck Tells the Story of When World War II Came to Aruba image

The Antilla Shipwreck Tells the Story of When World War II Came to Aruba
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A Rare 1897 Film Discovered in an Old Trunk in Michigan Features the First On-Screen Appearance of a Robot image

A Rare 1897 Film Discovered in an Old Trunk in Michigan Features the First On-Screen Appearance of a Robot
The Hell Creek Formation Is North America's Legendary Boneyard. See the Top Five Discoveries Found in the Iconic Fossil Bed image

The Hell Creek Formation Is North America’s Legendary Boneyard. See the Top Five Discoveries Found in the Iconic Fossil Bed
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Why Does This Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Stone Slab Depict a Roman Emperor as an Egyptian Pharaoh? image

Why Does This Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Stone Slab Depict a Roman Emperor as an Egyptian Pharaoh?
In 1776, the Declaration of Independence Was Breaking News. Here's How the Founding Document Reached the American Public image

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence Was Breaking News. Here’s How the Founding Document Reached the American Public
A Glowing Sphere Towering Over Utah Sent an Urgent Artistic Message: The Great Salt Lake Is Drying Up image

A Glowing Sphere Towering Over Utah Sent an Urgent Artistic Message: The Great Salt Lake Is Drying Up
Large Invasive Rodents Are Wreaking Havoc in California. New Research Suggests Someone Deliberately Introduced Them image

Large Invasive Rodents Are Wreaking Havoc in California. New Research Suggests Someone Deliberately Introduced Them
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After Nearly 80 Years of Doubt, Scientists Say a Spear Lodged Between Elephant Ribs Offers Evidence That Neanderthals Hunted Big Game image

After Nearly 80 Years of Doubt, Scientists Say a Spear Lodged Between Elephant Ribs Offers Evidence That Neanderthals Hunted Big Game
Enslaved and Free Workers Built Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Brick by Brick. Archaeologists Just Discovered One of the Kilns They Used image

Enslaved and Free Workers Built Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Brick by Brick. Archaeologists Just Discovered One of the Kilns They Used
Does Your Cat Always Leave Behind a Half-Full Bowl of Food? New Research Points to Why Our Furry Friends Can Be Such Picky Eaters image

Does Your Cat Always Leave Behind a Half-Full Bowl of Food? New Research Points to Why Our Furry Friends Can Be Such Picky Eaters
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“The largest stand-alone ancient Roman villa ever unearthed in Wales.”

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Archaeologists Say They've Detected the Largest Stand-Alone Ancient Roman Villa Ever Unearthed in Wales image
The foundations of the buried villa captured by ground-penetrating radar (Terradat)

Archaeologists Say They’ve Detected the Largest Stand-Alone Ancient Roman Villa Ever Unearthed in Wales
The mansion’s foundations and floors are likely well-preserved, according to geophysical surveys. The discovery provides new insights into the Roman occupation in the region
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'Aha' Moments Seem to Come Out of Nowhere. How Does the Brain Create These Sudden Bursts of Insight? image

‘Aha’ Moments Seem to Come Out of Nowhere. How Does the Brain Create These Sudden Bursts of Insight?
Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory image

Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory
These Baffling Bone Artifacts Discovered by an Amateur Archaeologist May Be the World's Oldest Whale Harpoons image

These Baffling Bone Artifacts Discovered by an Amateur Archaeologist May Be the World’s Oldest Whale Harpoons
A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools image

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools
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History Remembered This Black Medal of Honor Recipient for the Two Worst Days of His Life. A New Book Dives Into the Vietnam Vet's Story image

History Remembered This Black Medal of Honor Recipient for the Two Worst Days of His Life. A New Book Dives Into the Vietnam Vet’s Story
Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Bar-Shaped Cloud of Iron Within the Iconic Ring Nebula image

Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Bar-Shaped Cloud of Iron Within the Iconic Ring Nebula
This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide image

This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide
Scientists Discover New Species of Poison Dart Frog with One-of-One Specimen Collected More than Sixty Years Ago image

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Ötzi the Iceman May Have Carried a Cancer-Causing Strain of HPV, a Common Virus Still Plaguing Humans Today image

Ötzi the Iceman May Have Carried a Cancer-Causing Strain of HPV, a Common Virus Still Plaguing Humans Today
A Stunning Stretch of California's Rugged Coastline Is Now Open to the Public for the First Time in a Century image

A Stunning Stretch of California’s Rugged Coastline Is Now Open to the Public for the First Time in a Century
This Dinosaur May Have Used Its Strange Clawed Hands to Pilfer and Pierce Eggs image

This Dinosaur May Have Used Its Strange Clawed Hands to Pilfer and Pierce Eggs
Oscar Wilde's Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death image

Oscar Wilde’s Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death
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“Astronomers may have witnessed a rare double explosion of a star called a ‘superkilonova’ for the first time.”

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In a First, Astronomers May Have Witnessed a Rare Double Explosion of a Star Called a Superkilonova image
An artistic representation of a superkilonova (Caltech / K. Miller and R. Hurt (IPAC))

In a First, Astronomers May Have Witnessed a Rare Double Explosion of a Star Called a Superkilonova
A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion
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This Mama Polar Bear Adopted a Young Cub—and You Can Track the Family as They Wander Around the Hudson Bay image

This Mama Polar Bear Adopted a Young Cub—and You Can Track the Family as They Wander Around the Hudson Bay
The Science of Keeping New Year’s Resolutions image

The Science of Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
The Oldest Restaurant in the World Just Turned 300 Years Old image

The Oldest Restaurant in the World Just Turned 300 Years Old
This Lemon-Shaped Planet Has an Atmosphere Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen image

This Lemon-Shaped Planet Has an Atmosphere Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen
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Need a Quick Boost in Physical Strength? Try Blurting Out Some Curse Words, a Study Suggests image

Need a Quick Boost in Physical Strength? Try Blurting Out Some Curse Words, a Study Suggests
Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics image

Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics
Denmark's Postal Service Is About to Stop Delivering Physical Letters After 400 Years image

Denmark’s Postal Service Is About to Stop Delivering Physical Letters After 400 Years
From Edison's Light Bulb to the Ball in Times Square image

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Two Towering Statues of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Have Been Restored at the Entrance of His Temple After 3,000 Years image

Two Towering Statues of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Have Been Restored at the Entrance of His Temple After 3,000 Years
For 25 Years, the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program Has Kept Weekly Tabs on Volcanic Eruptions Around the World. Here’s How They Do It image

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She Protested School Segregation as a Teenager. Now She's Being Honored With a Statue at the U.S. Capitol image

She Protested School Segregation as a Teenager. Now She’s Being Honored With a Statue at the U.S. Capitol
One of the George Washington Portraits That Inspired the Image on the $1 Bill Could Sell for Up to $1 Million image

One of the George Washington Portraits That Inspired the Image on the $1 Bill Could Sell for Up to $1 Million
After a Century, the Rockettes Are Still Kicking Their Way Into American Hearts image

After a Century, the Rockettes Are Still Kicking Their Way Into American Hearts
A New Way to Boost the Powerhouses of the Cell Might Combat Aging and Degenerative Diseases, Lab Study Suggests image

A New Way to Boost the Powerhouses of the Cell Might Combat Aging and Degenerative Diseases, Lab Study Suggests
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“This stunning image shows a skydiver falling across the face of the Sun.”

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This Stunning Image Shows a Skydiver Falling Across the Face of the Sun. Here’s How the Team Captured the Mesmerizing Photo image
“The Fall of Icarus”  (Andrew McCarthy, Cosmic Background)

This Stunning Image Shows a Skydiver Falling Across the Face of the Sun. Here’s How the Team Captured the Mesmerizing Photo
Months of careful planning and calculations went into the shot. Then, the team had only one jump attempt to get it right
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What's Killing These Oak Trees in the Midwest? Conservationists Believe Drifting Herbicides Are to Blame image

What’s Killing These Oak Trees in the Midwest? Conservationists Believe Drifting Herbicides Are to Blame
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Archaeologists Are Unraveling the Mysteries Behind Deep Pits Found Near Stonehenge image

Archaeologists Are Unraveling the Mysteries Behind Deep Pits Found Near Stonehenge
When a Humpback Whale Got Stranded in Oregon, a Native Community Turned the Tragedy Into a Revival of a Traditional Practice image

When a Humpback Whale Got Stranded in Oregon, a Native Community Turned the Tragedy Into a Revival of a Traditional Practice
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A Volcanic Eruption in 1345 May Have Triggered a Chain of Events That Brought the Black Death to Europe image

A Volcanic Eruption in 1345 May Have Triggered a Chain of Events That Brought the Black Death to Europe
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From Crushed Sugar Cubes to Exploded Ceramics, This Universal Law Predicts How Most Objects Will Shatter image

From Crushed Sugar Cubes to Exploded Ceramics, This Universal Law Predicts How Most Objects Will Shatter
What Do You Get a Museum That Has Almost Everything for the Holidays? One of the Most Spectacular Dome-Headed Dinosaur Skulls Ever Unearthed image

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What Do You Get a Museum That Has Almost Everything for the Holidays? One of the Most Spectacular Dome-Headed Dinosaur Skulls Ever Unearthed
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'Murder Hornets' Might Strike Terror in Humans, but These Frogs Can Eat Them for Lunch image

‘Murder Hornets’ Might Strike Terror in Humans, but These Frogs Can Eat Them for Lunch
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Roman Olive Oil Production Facilities in North Africa image

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Roman Olive Oil Production Facilities in North Africa
Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' Was Initially Rejected by a Publisher. It Later Became One of the World's Most Beloved Novels image

Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Initially Rejected by a Publisher. It Later Became One of the World’s Most Beloved Novels
This Site in Bolivia Boasts 16,600 Exposed Dinosaur Footprints—The Most Ever Found in One Location image

This Site in Bolivia Boasts 16,600 Exposed Dinosaur Footprints—The Most Ever Found in One Location
This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach image

This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach
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“Go behind the scenes as an iconic library moves 700,000 treasures.”

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Go Behind the Scenes at an Iconic Irish Library as Staff Move 700,000 Historical Treasures Into Storage image
A bust of Plato in the Long Room at Trinity College Dublin (Yvonne Gordon)

Go Behind the Scenes at an Iconic Irish Library as Staff Move 700,000 Historical Treasures Into Storage

Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library will close for restoration and construction in 2027. What does that mean for the medieval manuscripts and books housed there?
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A Historian Has Finally Uncovered the Identity of the Nazi Gunman in a Haunting Holocaust Photograph image

A Historian Has Finally Uncovered the Identity of the Nazi Gunman in a Haunting Holocaust Photograph

Your Brain Goes Through Five Distinct Epochs of Neural Wiring During Your Lifetime, New Research Suggests image

Your Brain Goes Through Five Distinct Epochs of Neural Wiring During Your Lifetime, New Research Suggests

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Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment image

Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain’s Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

How an Experiment to Amplify Light in Hospital Operating Rooms Led to the Accidental Invention of the Snow Globe image

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Ancient DNA Reveals That a Teenage Girl Chewed on This Wad of 'Gum' 10,500 Years Ago image

Ancient DNA Reveals That a Teenage Girl Chewed on This Wad of ‘Gum’ 10,500 Years Ago

'Rage Bait,' Which Describes Online Content Created to Make Us Mad, Is Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year image

‘Rage Bait,’ Which Describes Online Content Created to Make Us Mad, Is Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year

Claude, San Francisco's Beloved Albino Alligator and 'Unofficial Mascot,' Dies at Age 30 image

Claude, San Francisco’s Beloved Albino Alligator and ‘Unofficial Mascot,’ Dies at Age 30

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A DNA Analysis of Almost 3,000 Canines Suggests That Most Dogs Have a Little Wolf in Them image

A DNA Analysis of Almost 3,000 Canines Suggests That Most Dogs Have a Little Wolf in Them

Giant Mirrors in Space Could Bring Sunlight After Dark, One Startup Says—and Astronomers Are Concerned image

Giant Mirrors in Space Could Bring Sunlight After Dark, One Startup Says—and Astronomers Are Concerned

Thousands of Mysterious Holes Dot the Landscape in Peru. Archaeologists Say They May Finally Know Why image

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Experts Say This Small Drawing of a Foot May Be a Long-Lost Study for Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling image

Experts Say This Small Drawing of a Foot May Be a Long-Lost Study for Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Monk Parakeets Are Highly Social Birds, but They Slowly ‘Test the Waters’ When Making New Friends image

Monk Parakeets Are Highly Social Birds, but They Slowly ‘Test the Waters’ When Making New Friends

This Renoir Painting of the Artist's Young Son Hadn't Been Seen for 100 Years. It Just Sold at Auction for $2 Million image

This Renoir Painting of the Artist’s Young Son Hadn’t Been Seen for 100 Years. It Just Sold at Auction for $2 Million

New Trials Hint That 'Functional Cure' for HIV May Be Within Reach, Helping Some Patients Achieve Lasting Remission image

New Trials Hint That ‘Functional Cure’ for HIV May Be Within Reach, Helping Some Patients Achieve Lasting Remission

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“Smithsonian Magazine-the Weekender:  Ethiopian volcano erupts for the firs time in nearly 12,000 years of scientific records.”

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The Real History Behind 'Hamnet' and the Tragically Short Life of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's Only Son image
Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes in director Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, a Focus Features release. (Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 Focus Features LLC)

The Real History Behind ‘Hamnet’ and the Tragically Short Life of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway’s Only Son
A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, imagines the lives of the Shakespeare family in fantastical and heartbreaking fashion
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Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Nearly 12,000 Years of Scientific Records image

Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Nearly 12,000 Years of Scientific Records
In Her 70s, Grandma Moses Began Painting Lovely Scenes of Rural Life. Then She Became an Icon image

In Her 70s, Grandma Moses Began Painting Lovely Scenes of Rural Life. Then She Became an Icon
Stunningly Well-Preserved Neanderthal Skull Suggests the Species' Large Noses Weren't Adapted for the Cold image

Stunningly Well-Preserved Neanderthal Skull Suggests the Species’ Large Noses Weren’t Adapted for the Cold
Listen to a Lion’s Second Type of Roar, Which Was Just Discovered by Scientists image

Listen to a Lion’s Second Type of Roar, Which Was Just Discovered by Scientists
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Three Brothers Found a 1939 Copy of 'Superman No. 1' in Their Mother's Attic. It Just Became the Most Expensive Comic Book Ever Sold image

Three Brothers Found a 1939 Copy of ‘Superman No. 1’ in Their Mother’s Attic. It Just Became the Most Expensive Comic Book Ever Sold
These Ancient Log Boats Unearthed in England Were Each Carved From a Single Tree Trunk 3,000 Years Ago image

These Ancient Log Boats Unearthed in England Were Each Carved From a Single Tree Trunk 3,000 Years Ago
German Archaeologists Discovered the Iconic Bust of Nefertiti in an Ancient Egyptian Sculptor’s Studio. Find Out Why Their Discovery Is Now One of Archaeology’s Most Controversial image

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Just as the Italian Art of Glassblowing Was on the Verge of Shattering, a Talented Craftsman in Murano Emerged to Revive It image

Just as the Italian Art of Glassblowing Was on the Verge of Shattering, a Talented Craftsman in Murano Emerged to Revive It
A Famed Street Photographer Chronicled What Christmas Looks Like Across America Over the Course of Decades image

A Famed Street Photographer Chronicled What Christmas Looks Like Across America Over the Course of Decades
Archaeologists Find Evidence of a Bronze Age City in Kazakhstan image

Archaeologists Find Evidence of a Bronze Age City in Kazakhstan
See the 'Mona Lisa of Illuminated Manuscripts,' a 600-Year-Old Bible Covered in Intricate Illustrations image

See the ‘Mona Lisa of Illuminated Manuscripts,’ a 600-Year-Old Bible Covered in Intricate Illustrations
This Toddler Was the First Person to Receive a Test Treatment for a Rare Genetic Disorder. Nine Months Later, His Progress Is Inspiring Hope image

This Toddler Was the First Person to Receive a Test Treatment for a Rare Genetic Disorder. Nine Months Later, His Progress Is Inspiring Hope
One of the World’s Oldest Calculators Was Up for Auction. Then, Scientists Rallied and Temporarily Blocked Its Sale image

One of the World’s Oldest Calculators Was Up for Auction. Then, Scientists Rallied and Temporarily Blocked Its Sale
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“Archaeologists may have found the Lost City of the Silk Road.”

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Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan image
This Tugunbulak settlement was inhabited between the 6th and 11th centuries. (Simon Norfolk)

Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan
Researchers are uncovering what they think is the metropolis of Marsmanda, an iron-making city that could rewrite the history of the famed trade route
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Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging image

Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging
Thousands of Mysterious Holes Dot the Landscape in Peru. Archaeologists Say They May Finally Know Why image

Thousands of Mysterious Holes Dot the Landscape in Peru. Archaeologists Say They May Finally Know Why
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Feel a Connection to a Celebrity You’ve Never Met? Your Bond May Be 'Parasocial,' Which Is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025 image

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Ancient Pompeii's Elite May Have Built Lavish Towers on Top of Their Villas. Here's What They May Have Looked Like image

Ancient Pompeii’s Elite May Have Built Lavish Towers on Top of Their Villas. Here’s What They May Have Looked Like
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Watch a Wolf Cleverly Raid a Crab Trap for a Snack. It Might Be the First Evidence of a Wild Canid Using a Tool image

Watch a Wolf Cleverly Raid a Crab Trap for a Snack. It Might Be the First Evidence of a Wild Canid Using a Tool
At the Mysterious Boundary Between Waking Life and Sleep, What Happens in the Brain? image

At the Mysterious Boundary Between Waking Life and Sleep, What Happens in the Brain?
A 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Cub Was Unearthed in Siberia—and It Still Had Its Whiskers and Claws image

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The Passage of Commodus was used by Roman emperors. (Simona Murrone / Colosseum Archaeological Park)

You Can Now Walk Through the Colosseum’s Secret Tunnel Once Used by Ancient Roman Emperors
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Metal Barrels Dumped Off the Coast of Los Angeles Are Encircled by Mysterious White Halos—and Scientists Think They Finally Know Why image
Some of the barrels off the coast of Los Angeles are surrounded by mysterious white halos in the sediment. (Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Metal Barrels Dumped Off the Coast of Los Angeles Are Encircled by Mysterious White Halos—and Scientists Think They Finally Know Why
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