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On the Scene: Chasing the Ominous Clouds of a Supercell Thunderstorm
(Photo: Caryn Hill) In her eight years as a severe weather photographer, Caryn Hill has photographed 244 tornados. Every spring, in what’s known as "chase season," Hill follows the weather patterns in...
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Tailing an Overnight Doctor at New York's Busiest Animal ER
A little doggie inspiration magnet on one of the hospital's patient charts. (All photos: Tao Tao Holmes)Melchior Firestein is a black cat, he is frowning, and he has a foot of string hanging out of his...
View ArticleFound: A Massive, Mysterious Rock Sphere in Bosnia
In Bosnia, in a forest outside the town of Zavidovici, a controversial archaeologist, Semir Osmanagic, has found a giant stone sphere. It’s impressively large—four to five feet in diameter, and has...
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Why All Of Minneapolis Woke Up At The Same Time This Morning
Minneapolis, early in the morning. (Photo: skeeze/CC0)Even infrastructure has to let loose sometimes.Around 6:10 a.m., Minneapolis's civil defense sirens all went off at once, jolting much of the...
View ArticleExtreme Speed Pipe Smoking is Not for the Weak of Stomach
Imagine a toxic sport in which old British gentlemen are the premier athletes. Voilà, you've got speed pipe smoking!Watch as these four warriors face off in the pastures of Cumberland, England in 1969....
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany
Completed on December 15, 2004, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was built in remembrance of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. By pairing aesthetic minimalism and a massive...
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The National Weather Service Will STOP USING ALL CAPS IN FORECASTS
Meteorologists working on weather forecasts in 1926. (Photo: NOAA/CC BY 2.0)In the age of the internet, the National Weather Service's forecasts remain written in the voice of your hard-of-hearing...
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Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California
It’s like traveling back in time to a Golden Age. Every weekend since 1968, the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California — just a few miles south of where that gold was made — has been showing...
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The First Brain Scans of People High on LSD Reveal Some Predictable Things
Noted LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary in 1969. (Photo: Dr. Dennis Bogdan/CC BY-SA 3.0)LSD is a drug which has been enjoyed for decades in the United States of America, generally by bored teenagers,...
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Cerro Sechin in Casma, Peru
It is unclear who built Cerro Sechin, or how they built it, or what exactly its purpose was. One thing, however, is abundantly clear: they liked making carvings of mutilated bodies.Part of the larger...
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Victorians Wanted to Contact Aliens Using Giant Mirrors
Tesla in his lab. (Photo: Wellcome Images/CC BY 4.0)In 1899, while Nicola Tesla was working in his lab in Colorado Springs, he started registering strange electric disturbances on one of his sensors....
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A Billionaire's Plan to Send Robots Powered by Lasers to Alpha Centauri
Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking at a press conference to announce the plan on Tuesday. (Photo: Bryan Bedder/Breakthrough Prize Foundation)Here's something amazing. While you were busy today patting...
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Inaccessible Island in Inaccessible Island, United Kingdom
Sitting off the coast of Tristan de Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island, is another little spit of land with a much more telling name, Inhospitable Island. First discovered by Europeans in...
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Gaztelugatxe in Biscay, Spain
Sitting off the Basque coast of Spain, the tiny island of Gaztelugatxe would probably just be another tiny isle left off of maps and all but forgotten, were it not for the fantastical stone bridge and...
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An Afternoon With MIT's Most Important Invention
Two graduate students burned by Foodcam. (Photo: Atlas Obscura)The MIT Media Lab is a much-vaunted, glass-walled bastion of technological progress. At any given moment, the luminaries inside might be...
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On the Scene: In the Underwater Shadow of a Giant Manta Ray
(Photo: Anuar Patjane Floriuk) In the Pacific Ocean, approximately 500 miles from the west coast of Mexico, lies the Revillagigedo Archipelago. It’s a collection of largely uninhabited volcanic...
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The Historical Reenactor Accuracy Wars
A re-enactment in action in Virginia. (Photo: Donnie Nunley/CC BY 2.0)When you load up the car for a camping weekend set in the 1800s, the gear is a little different: Canvas tent. Wool bedroll. Hobnail...
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Museums at Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia
The Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg holds tight to the past while embracing it's future. From Easter egg hunts to Civil War re-enactments, this cemetery is all about education and civic involvement and...
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Found: A Gruesome Painting That May Be an Authentic Caravaggio
Un tableau du #Caravage a-t-il été découvert dans un grenier en France ? https://t.co/DclqfdnXWu par @emma_jardonnetpic.twitter.com/B1STnIS5Ny— Le Monde (@lemondefr) April 12, 2016In the attic of an...
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Watch Thousands of Tiny Crabs Stampede Across the Sea Floor
Crab stampede! Run! (Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)Counting up octopi and tailing sea turtles is all in a day's work for ocean biologists. But last year, biodiversity researchers off the...
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