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Can this medieval shipwreck rewrite ancient history?

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

You won’t believe what these tiny creatures can do after dark

One photographer captures nature’s ultimate glow-up—the stunning ways animals fluoresce at night.

Visiting a U.S. national park—for the retro architecture

During the mid-20th century, the National Park Service launched the Mission 66 initiative: a bold plan to ditch rustic "Parkitecture" and go modern. It took decades for parkgoers to warm up to the audacious style.

Inside the making of the world’s most modern natural history museum

At the new Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, curators want to bring visitors astonishingly close to the most fascinating creatures the Earth has ever seen.

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