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Hannah Seo

Hannah Seo is a freelance science journalist, podcast writer, and poet based in Brooklyn. In addition to Atlas Obscura, her work can be found in WIRED, Scientific American, The Walrus, and Popular Science, among others.

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Porcelain Gallbladder Found in Human Remains in Mississippi Asylum Cemetery

A rare secret was taken to the grave in an unmarked, 100-year-old burial ground.

Why Scientists Are Mixing Wasabi and Ancient Papyrus

Vapors from the delicious food have a surprising effect.

Why Holes at the Bottom of the Ocean Disappear and Reappear

What lurks below doesn’t always stay beneath the sand.

January 18, 2024

People May Speak More Loudly or Quietly Depending on the Climate

Places that are usually hot or cold developed languages differently.

December 14, 2023

A Pond in Hawaii Has Turned a Shocking Pink

Scientists try to figure out why the water dramatically changed color over one weekend.

November 15, 2023

What Happens to Caves When Wildfires Scorch the Surface?

Ecologists are finding unexpected changes in the delicate ecosystems below Lava Beds National Monument.

October 26, 2021

Why Were These Mysterious Stone Orbs Stashed All Over Neolithic Britain?

Two new ones just turned up in a tomb on a remote Scottish island.

September 30, 2021

The Mysterious Coral Cousin Swarming the Palmyra Atoll

Little is known about pesky corallimorphs, except that they seem to thrive when reefs are damaged.

August 18, 2021

How Scientific Detective Work Pinned Down the Oldest Known Shark Attack

But mysteries about the 3,000-year-old bones from Japan remain.