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The museum is housed in a building that evokes the soil layers its researchers collect, preserve, and analyze.
Wageningen, Netherlands

World Soil Museum

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.
An artist's rendering of the moment an ancient crocodilian really stepped in it.
science

An Ancient Croc Stepped in Poop and Created a Portal to the Past

Scientists braved rain, mud, and a close encounter at a crocodile farm to learn what fossilized feces reveal about life 33 million years ago.
Kate Golembiewski February 28, 2022
Rocky's doghouse was carefully dismantled after meteorite hunters purchased it in 2019. Though Rocky was sad to see his house go, it was soon replaced with a much nicer one.
objects of intrigue

Sold: A $44,000 Doghouse With a Hole in Its Roof

Rocky's home was struck by a rare meteorite, but don't worry, he's okay.
Sarah Durn February 25, 2022
Hard may not mean what you think it does.
science

What's the Hardest Wood in the World?

And what does hard mean, anyway?
Dan Nosowitz February 23, 2022
Using a surprise source of evidence, researchers believe an infamous dinosaur-killing asteroid slammed into Earth in the Northern Hemisphere spring.
dinosaurs

Did the Dinosaurs Die on a Pleasant North Dakota Spring Day?

Fish fossils may put "the single worst day for multicellular life on Earth" on the calendar.
Gemma Tarlach February 23, 2022
George McJunkin, a self-taught naturalist, found numerous ancient stone tools, ceramics, and animal bones while working in New Mexico.
science

The Story of George McJunkin, a Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology

The self-taught naturalist found a site that would transform scientific views about Native Americans in North America.
Stephen E. Nash February 21, 2022
Rows of surviving column bases hint at the scale of Algeria's ancient site of Tipasa
ruins

Algeria’s Ancient Melting Pot Faces an Uncertain Future

For more than a millennium, Tipasa was a symbol of cross-cultural exchange. Now the sea is coming for it.
Gemma Tarlach February 17, 2022
The Bread Lab's grains are very different from what's in most grocery store flour.
science

Welcome to the Bread Lab

These scientists want you to love whole wheat.
Susannah Skiver Barton February 15, 2022
Rollstone Boulder
List

13 Places to Celebrate Erratic Behavior

If you’re one of those “everything in its place” people, you’re going to hate this.
Gemma Tarlach February 15, 2022
Famed mountaineer Edmund Hillary displays a rendering of a yeti at a 1960 news conference before departing on his expedition in the Himalayas.
cryptozoology

When Edmund Hillary Went in Search of the Yeti

In 1961, the pursuit of the abominable snowman was still taken seriously.
Tom Ward February 15, 2022
ships

Podcast: Milky Seas

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team February 10, 2022
science

Podcast: The Theater of Electricity

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team February 9, 2022
A satellite image acquired in September 2021 shows the central lobe of the Malaspina Glacier surging toward the sea.
science

Why Is This Rippling Alaska Glacier a Research Hotbed?

Malaspina Glacier is the world's most accessible of its kind—but that's not the only reason scientists find it so cool.
Gemma Tarlach February 8, 2022
Close up of the Pantelegraph
Milan, Italy

Pantelegraph

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.
Up the trail to White Mountain Peak (on the left).
Swall Meadows, California

White Mountain Peak

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.
Herman the Bull
Leiden, Netherlands

De stal van Stier Herman

The world's first transgenic bovine has been preserved at the museum where he spent his final years—though his old stable is now a cafe.
The Arctic hare BBYY traveled more than 240 miles during a seven-week period in 2019.
science

What Energized This Arctic Hare to Keep Going and Going and Going?

The animal known as BBYY traveled hundreds of miles, breaking records and shattering expectations.
Gemma Tarlach February 1, 2022
The famous Terrace of Lions is one of many ancient Greek sites featuring realistic depictions of the animals; eroded by weather, the remaining statues are now safely housed in a nearby museum.
science

Following the Mysterious Trail of Europe's Last Wild Lions

Researchers use art and ancient bones to make the case for modern lions once freely roaming Southeastern Europe.
Katarina Zimmer January 31, 2022