10,033 tiny clay cats reenact the Civil War at a Gettysburg museum
A stone’s throw from the hallowed ground of the Gettysburg Battlefield, where over 51,000 soldiers died over three days,...
Author : Cathy Klein
Free Blockbusters are popping up to bring back physical media
Blockbuster is a hollow VHS clamshell of its former glory. A cultural mainstay throughout the 90s, the home video...
Read an WWII Army private’s letters back home for the first time
The United Service Organizations (USO) has thousands of pieces of military memorabilia in its collections, but some of these...
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole actually doesn’t devour everything
Inside almost every known galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole, and our home Milky Way galaxy is no exception....
Ancient South American families built massive waterways by themselves
The La Mojana field systems in Colombia’s wetlands are some of the largest examples of monumental ancient engineering in...
Ohio’s Cardboard Boat Museum is a tribute to improbable homemade vessels
The Pure Oil Gas Station just southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, can’t top off the tank for roadtrippers—but it does...
There’s a brand new way to buy an iPhone, and here’s whether it’s worth your time and money
Apple brings out multiple new iPhones each year, which means you can keep regularly upgrading to the newest and...
NASA successfully gives Voyager 2 another year of life
Voyager 2 recently experienced its own “Big Bang” moment, allowing NASA scientists to squeeze a bit more life out...
Man builds fire-spouting propane pipe organ
Pipe organs generate their sound thanks to fluid dynamics, but the “fluid” that makes the music is up to...
Plasma waves spotted on sun’s surface for the first time
With the power of the world’s largest solar telescope, astronomers have successfully glimpsed the sun’s roiling surface in never-before-seen...