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Scientists Just Discovered a New Vulnerability in HIV
Green and yellow antibodies attack the red peptide on HIV in this visualization. (Photo: NIAID)Last week, scientists said they had found something interesting: a vulnerable part of the human...
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Lumberjack Contests are the Coolest College Extracurricular
Carissa Camenson maneuvers a traditional six-foot crosscut saw through a log in a college-level logging competition. (All Photos: Mikayla Camenson)Carissa Camenson stood in a vast acre and a half arena...
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Renishaw Hall in Renishaw , Sheffield
This magnificent British estate, perched atop a rocky vista, has been home to the aristocratic Sitwell family for over 400 years.Renishaw Hall was built in 1625, by family patriarch George Sitwell, the...
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Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
If you only visit one glacier in your life, Perito Moreno would be a good one to pick. It towers above the turquoise glacial water of Patagonia's Los Glaciares National Park, beaming a blinding white...
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The World's Smallest Porpoises Might Soon Be Extinct
(Photo: NOAA/Public Domain)Vaquitas, or "little cows" in Spanish, are the world's smallest porpoises. They've been critically endangered for a while, numbering just 100 in 2014. Primarily found in the...
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Help Us Grow The Ultimate Tree Playlist
Lets rock the bark off some trees. (Photo: Courtney Rhodes/CC BY 2.0)For Tree Week here on Atlas Obscura, we're putting together the ultimate playlist of songs about trees to listen to while we explore...
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Hallett Nature Sanctuary in New York, New York
Between Cop Cot and The Pond in the southeastern corner of New York's Central Park is a four-acre area that, until recently, had been closed to the public since 1934.Originally called The Promontory by...
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Johnnie Meier Classical Gas Museum in Embudo, New Mexico
Embudo, New Mexico is about two thirds of the way from Santa Fe to Taos, along Route 68. Both the road and the tiny town hug up against the Rio Grande. Passing through you’d think there wouldn’t be...
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This Guy Tried to Grow Food on 'Martian' Soil and Was Surprised When It Worked
Mars, in an image shot by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Photo: NASA/Public Domain)It won't be easy growing food on Mars. NASA is trying, of course, in case humans ever get there. But the conditions are...
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Trees—They're Just Like Us!
(Photo: pcdazero/CC0 Public Domain)They love to play with kittens!(Photo: National Park Service Digital Image Archives/Public Domain)They force themselves to take risks!(Photo: Shifra Levyathan/CC BY...
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Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist's Invented Tree Font
The phrase "about trees," shown in the font Tree.The book About Trees, now being reprinted after selling out its first small run last year is, as the title says, about trees. Like other books, it's...
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Tianzi Hotel in Shijiazhuang Shi, China
Despite a looming ban on "weird architecture" that may rob the world of some phenomenal – and gigantic – works of art, China has already given us the glorious Tianzi Hotel, a many-storied edifice...
View ArticleWatch These Guys Climb 80-Foot Poles in Just 13 Seconds
This is not your average tree climbing. Sure, technical tree-climbing and urban arborists are pretty legit, but speed-wise they're no match for climbers sprinting up an 80-foot pole in a matter of...
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For 4 Days, Portugal Ran on Renewable Energy Alone
A wind farm in Lousã, Portugal. (Photo: CorreiaPM/Public Domain)Portugal had, until very recently, been generating up to half its energy with combustible energies like coal, oil, and natural gas. But...
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Kinetic Grand Championship in Arcata, California
Each year on Memorial Day weekend in Northern California – a land known for the uniqueness of its larger-than-life trees and characters who reside beneath them – plays host to an event that defies easy...
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Preserving Ireland's Ancient, Mysterious Tree-Based Alphabet
A 3-D scan of the Ballymorereagh Ogham stone. The inscription translates to "Cellach son of Mac-Áine." (Photo: Nora White/Ogham in 3-D)As an archaeological linguist working in Dublin, Nora White has...
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Ravenglass Roman Bath House in Cumbria, England
Ravenglass is on the western edge of Cumbria's Lake District National Park, the park's only coastal village. Here there are remains of a once bustling Roman fort and naval outpost, but the most...
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The Scientist Who Discovered Sudden Oak Death Believes We Can Save the Forests
Sudden Oak death in evidence in Marin County, California. (Photo: USFS Region 5/CC BY 2.0)In the mid 1990s, thousands of trees in California’s coastal forests began to die. Leaves turned brown very...
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Joel Lane House Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina
Tucked away in a residential neighborhood in downtown Raleigh, the Joel Lane House, built in the late 1760's or early 1770's, is the oldest house in Raleigh however very little is known about the man...
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Mount Judi in Şırnak Province, Turkey
Among those who believe in the literal truth of the Bible many believe that Noah’s Ark washed to land on Turkey's Mount Ararat, when the flood waters receded on 17th day of the 17th month.However,...
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