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noise

This Fish's Propensity for Deafening Orgies Is Both Its Strength and Its Weakness

A single male Gulf covina is louder than a jet engine.
December 21, 2017
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cryonics

One of 2017’s Most Exciting Plant Conservation Moments

In Ontario this year, researchers propagated a rare species and released it back into the wild.
December 20, 2017
Gastro Obscura
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philosophy

The Incompatible Food Triad Cookoff

To solve a tasty philosophical problem, we whipped up strawberry-mushroom-balsamic tarts and beef-orange-cream pot pies.
December 20, 2017
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archive

How Archivists Deal With Redactions, Codes, and Scribbles

Sometimes, obscurity leads to surprising intimacies.
December 15, 2017
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darwin

Wishlist: A Book That Evolves Before Your Eyes

Fathom's color-coded version of "On the Origin of Species" changes as you read it.
December 15, 2017
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shorts

A New Multilingual Sign Language Dictionary Looks to the Stars

Hoping to make education more accessible, the International Astronomical Union is compiling all the signs of outer space.
December 15, 2017
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the year in wonder

The Artist Shrinking Antarctica’s Glaciers

Using 3-D imaging, Helen Glazer brings the southernmost continent indoors.
December 13, 2017
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evil plants

America's Tumultuous Love Affair With Kudzu

Before the plant was considered a scourge, it was used for decoration, as livestock fodder, and to fight erosion.
December 11, 2017
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migrations

The Snowy Owls Are Back in Town

Them wild-eyed birds that had been away.
December 7, 2017
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maps

How Far Can You Abstract a Map?

Morphology, an exploratory cartographic tool, turns the whole world into swoops and lines.
December 6, 2017
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gavle goat

Will 2017 Be the Gävle Goat's Lucky Year?

Everyone's favorite arson-prone ungulate is hoping to survive the season, for once.
December 5, 2017
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printing

Before Edward Lear Was a Limerick Genius, He Was a Teenage Parrot-Painting Prodigy

The beloved children's poet spent his own youth "at the West End / painting the best end / of some vast Parrots / as red as new carrots."
December 4, 2017
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data

To Identify Whale Sharks, Scientists Looked to the Stars

A groundbreaking marine database was only made possible by a telescope algorithm.
December 1, 2017
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evil plants

How Professionals Wrestle With One of the World's Scariest Plants

Giant hogweed can cause blistering burns and even blindness. So what do you do if you want to preserve one?
November 30, 2017
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journeys

This Camera Recorded Its Own Disappearance

Swept 350 miles across the sea, it would like to be reunited with its owner.
November 30, 2017
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records

The World's Deepest-Living Fish Is Surprisingly Cute

Meet the Mariana snailfish, the top dog at the bottom of the world.
November 29, 2017
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cats

The First Cat in Space Deserves a Memorial

And if all goes well, she's finally going to get one.
November 27, 2017
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archive

The Treasures Blooming in Canada's Largest Seed Catalog Archive

They were once considered disposable, but the Royal Botanical Gardens is putting 30,000 horticultural periodicals to good use.
November 22, 2017
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marketing

This Water Safety Campaign in New Zealand Has a Stylish, Sinister Mascot

Meet the Swim Reaper.
November 21, 2017
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hair

Untangling the Secrets of One of Harvard’s Historic Hair Collections

The university's Houghton Library is home to a number of famous tresses.
November 20, 2017
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names

The Ferry McFerryface Controversy Tearing Australia Apart

Politicians are angry, workers are threatening to strike, and at least one environmentalist is devastated.
November 17, 2017
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balloons

France's Lost Pigeon-and-Balloon Memorial Is Well Worth Remembering

The statue—made by the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty—paid tribute to a flock of 19th-century war heroes.
November 16, 2017
Gastro Obscura
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meat

Nova Scotia Is Streaming Its Favorite Local Meat Log

The donair, a Haligonian delicacy, is getting its moment in the sun (or heatlamp).
November 15, 2017
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jumping

Watch 245 People Rope-Swing Off a Bridge in Tandem

Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
November 10, 2017