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A 'Black Moon' is Coming
The moon is going to disappear... again. (Photo: trasroid/CC BY 2.0)Can you spot the black moon? This Friday, in the Western Hemisphere, a rare “black moon” will rise in the night sky, according to...
View ArticleMeet Miracle, a 3-Week-Old Disabled Piglet Who Walks on 2 Legs
On the last day of August, farmer Ari Smith of Colorado Springs watched as a sow named Babe gave birth to a litter of six. As the piglets tumbled out, she noticed that one of them wasn't like the...
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America’s Short, Violent Love Affair With Indoor Track Cycling
Madison Square Garden during the six-day bike race, c. 1900. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-ggbain-01531)Imagine a dystopian scenario. You fall into a coma and wake up 50 years from today. Among...
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Proteins Preserved on 3.8 Million-Year-Old Eggshell Are a Portal to 'Deep Time'
The Olduvai Gorge, where the eggshells were found. (Photo: Noel Feans/CC BY 2.0)There's a scale at which time stops making instinctive sense. What we call "ancient" civilizations existed just a few...
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Cundy House in Bolsover, England
At Bolsover in Derbyshire, central England is a restored structure known as a "Cundy House," or conduit house. It is a remarkable remnant of 17th century water supply engineering, built to contribute...
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Iowa 80 Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa
Heading west on Interstate 80 in Iowa, you’ll come across a gigantic billboard proclaiming, “18 miles to WOW!” If you follow the billboard’s instructions and get off at Exit 284, that’s just what...
View ArticleWatch This Machine Dip an Endless Line of Apples Through Caramel
Fall is here, and farms are bustling with apple pickers. But at some candy and caramel apple factories, the sweet, crisp fruit comes in boxes year-round.In the video above, apples are stabbed, dangled...
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The Mystical Early Pennsylvania Settler Who Lived in a Cave
Wissahickon Creek, Pennsylvania. Johannes Kelpius' cave was located near Wissahickon. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-ppmsca-24881)In the mid-17th century a religious mystic, seeker, and occultist...
View ArticleWatch A Meteor Light Up the Sky in Australia, Before Crashing to Earth
‘Big as hell’ meteor crashes into sea off Australian coast (VIDEO) https://t.co/KaSt0YzKLxpic.twitter.com/UYd53RMYO8— RT (@RT_com) September 27, 2016Late in the evening on Monday, a bright flash lit up...
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The Giant's Staircase - Chesterfield Canal in Shireoaks, England
The Chesterfield Canal in northern England will be celebrating its 240th birthday in 2017. It originally connected West Stockwith to Chesterfield over forty miles away, and like many canals of the...
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Fatehpur Sikri in Fatehpur Sikri, India
This magnificent and abandoned fortified city of Fatehpur Sikri was built for the Mughal Emperor Akbar. It was the capital of the Mughal empire from 1571 to 1585, and is considered the best example of...
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You Can Now Listen to the First Computer-Generated Music Ever
Alan Turing at age 16. (Photo: Public domain)Alan Turing is best known for being one of a team of codebreakers who cracked Germany's Enigma machines during World War II, which shortened the war by as...
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Play Shoreline Monument in Gothenburg, Sweden
The Swedish alternative rock band Broder Daniel's hit song "Shoreline" became an instant classic when it was first played on the talkshow Sen kväll med Luuk in 2001. Soon it became the soundtrack of a...
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8 Alien Landscapes Where You Can Visit Mars on Earth
SpaceX’s Elon Musk is certain that humans can travel to Mars. In his plan for Mars colonization, revealed today, the entrepreneur said it will take between 40 and 100 years to create a self-sustaining...
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How Different Is Elon Musk's Plan From Mars Colony Visions of the Past?
A dust storm on Mars. (Image: Ren Wicks/NASA/JPL-Caltech)In 2016, this is what one vision of sending humans to Mars looks like:At the 67th International Astronautical Congress, in Guadalajara, Mexico,...
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Gaping Gill in North Yorkshire, England
Gaping Gill is the largest underground cave chamber in Britain. It's often said, without exaggeration, that this dramatic chamber is big enough to fit a cathedral. It is so big that there has been an...
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Twinings Tea Shop in London, England
You'll have to excuse the exoticized Chinamen figures atop the Twinings tea shop doorway at 216 Strand. They've been sitting up there for about three centuries, in which time the cultural acceptability...
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Ask Zardulu: Why is the Earth Dying?
(All illustrations by Matt Lubchansky)Welcome to the second installment of Atlas Obscura's new advice column, Ask Zardulu. If you have a life, love, money, family, spiritual, moral or myth-based...
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Mesmerizing Photos of Abandoned Structures in the High Arctic
High above Norway, in the cold depths of the Arctic Ocean, lies the Svalbard archipelago. Located some 650 miles from the North Pole, Svalbard is a place of long, dark winters and breathtaking...
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This Map Plots the Geocoordinates You May Have Accidentally Left Behind in...
The internet is an ocean of digital photos. With the ease of smartphone cameras, people snap endless numbers of pictures of their food, dogs, cats, kids, clothes, travels and everyday experiences. More...
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