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The Night a Green Meteor Seemed to Fall Into Mount Merapi
Gunarto Song had his shutter open for four seconds when a meteor lined up with the mouth of Indonesia's most…
Nature
Out of the Blue
Blue is the world's favorite color and one of the hardest to make. We sorted seventeen years of stories by…
Food & Drink
This New Potato Was Bred to Taste Like Roast Chicken
Row 7's new Poulette potato began with chef Michel Bras remembering the potato his mother grew. Ten years later, nearly…
Space
Inside Thunderbird, the Space Station With No Floor
Exploring the Thunderbird expandable space station, designed by OMI and Max Space.
Webb Finds a Dying Star Wearing a Lion’s Face
Five thousand light-years away, a star that ran out of fuel has shaped its leftovers into a lion, mane and…
Animals
A Descent Into the Deep Sea, and the New Animals Found There This Month
A worm with suction cups, a giant isopod found in a university drawer, and 57 new species from one canyon.…
The Telescope Buried in a Cubic Kilometer of Antarctic Ice Just Won a Nobel Prize
Francis Halzen spent nearly four decades turning South Pole ice into a telescope for ghost particles. This week it won…
Space
What Would Happen to a Human on Venus?
We explore what the surface of Venus might be like to touch down on.
Product Design
NoxTi Is a Tiny Titanium Keychain That Glows for 25 Years Without a Battery
A keychain the size of a AA battery, machined from Grade 5 titanium around a sealed tritium vial, that glows…
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Lake Natron: The Deadly Lake That Turns Birds to Stone
Tanzania's Lake Natron is so alkaline it calcifies the animals that die in it, yet 75 percent of the world's lesser flamingos are born on its…
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Salt Is Stranger Than You Think
Zoom into a single grain of salt, from the cubic lattice to the taste cell on your tongue, then back out through 8,000 years of salt history, the flaky salt…
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