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FOUND: A Moon Ocean
An illustration of Enceladus' interior (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech)Of Saturn's 62 moons, Enceladus is not the largest (it's sixth in line) or the weirdest. But it is the one that gives scientists the...
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A Short History of Area 51's Shady Expansion
Area 51 keeps growing... (Image: Google Maps)Area 51, everyone’s favorite military test site turned alien conspiracy theorist hub, is growing—whether its neighbors like it or not.The Associated Press...
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Bubbleland in Tiptonville, Kentucky
North of Tiptonville, Tennessee is an exclave of Kentucky surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, completely isolated from the rest of the state by its base being affixed to Tennessee. Some...
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Fleeting Wonders: Emu On The Lam In New Hampshire
Some emus in Australia, where they are supposed to live. (Photo: djpmapleferryman/Flickr)Police in Bow, New Hampshire are tracking down a feathery fugitive.For several days, the station has fielded...
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The Perpetually Dying Art Of The Small-Town Obituary
(All illustrations by Matt Lubchansky)After graduating from journalism school, I took a job at a tiny local paper in Northern California. I didn’t know this until I got there, but this paper was one of...
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The Victorian Traderess Who Battled Colonialism and Crocodiles in Africa
Mary Kingsley, perhaps the most fashion forward early explorer. (Photo: Courtesy of The Victorian Web)Explorer, trader, and anthropologist Mary Henrietta Kingsley was once saved from a grisly death by...
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When Treasure Hunting is the Family Business
Shipwreck haul. (Photo: Courtesy of Booty Salvage.)Not everyone wants to go into the family business. The world is littered with the children of tailors or lawyers or insurance agents who want to break...
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Battle Of Britain Bunker in Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Around 60 feet below ground. within the Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Uxbridge lies the Battle of Britain Bunker. It was in this room between July and October 1940 that the majority of the Battle of...
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Post Office Bay in Floreana Island, Ecuador
Located on Floreana Island in the Galapagos, Post Office Bay has been acting as a sort of passive post station since the 1700s, using nothing but a barrel and the camaraderie of sailers and...
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Abandoned Jerome Post Office in Jerome, Arizona
Known at one time as "The Largest Ghost Town in America," Jerome, Arizona was once thought to have been lost to abandonment. The town has made a successful resurgence in recent years and is now home to...
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Alternate Reality Games Could Still Take Over the World (And Your Life)
Is a robot about to call and threaten your life? (Photo: David D/flickr)Something big is coming up on September 22. Or September 27, when there will be a lunar eclipse. Or October 8, timed to the...
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Places You Can No Longer Go: Bethlehem Steel Works
Updated, 9/17: An earlier version of this story omitted information about the new performing arts venue. We regret the error.
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Want to Be a Mermaid? This Spanish Swim School's Got Your Tail
(Image: Mehgan Heaney-Grier/Wikipedia)When The Little Mermaid first hit theaters in 1989, aspiring mermaids and mermen who wanted to live an Ariel-influenced lifestyle had to make do with homemade...
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Take a Grand Tour of the World's Great Tattoos
A Hindu deity (Photo: Tang Ping/World Atlas of Tattoo)A Grand Tour of Tattooing, hitting all the highlights, might start in New York and end in Montreal. But in between, it would circle the world.You'd...
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Soul of Africa Museum in Essen, Germany
Hidden away in an Essen, Germany apartment is a small museum devoted to the traditional beliefs and rites of Western Africa. Touching on secret societies, magic, healing practices, voodoo, zombies, and...
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Why Can’t We Get Rid of the 7-Day Week?
The almighty calendar. (Photo: Joe Lanman/Flickr)In general, units of time can be divided into two categories. One category contains the units that measure something objective and observable, typically...
View ArticleFleeting Wonders: A Thrilling Killer Whale Chase Caught on Camera
When you think of action-packed cinematic chase scenes, they don't usually involve a pod of killer whales and a motorboat helmed by two frightened fishermen.Well, here's a new spin on the genre. As the...
View Article100 Wonders: The Blue Lagoon of Buxton
What makes certain bodies of water so beautiful? Is there a precise shade of blue that we are hardwired to want to leap into? Or have decades of Club Med and Sandals Resort advertising created the idea...
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FOUND: Australia's Newest Death Adder
The northern death adder (Photo: Christopher Watson/Wikimedia)A "Kimberley death adder" sounds like a creature that J.K. Rowling might have dreamed up and sent to kill Harry Potter, but in fact, it is...
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Kamppi Chapel in Helsingfors, Finland
In the middle of Helsinki's hectic Narrinkkatori Square is an ultra modern chapel that creates a little slice of heavenly silence in the middle of a sea of outside noise. Also known as the "Chapel of...
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