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This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ancestor, and more.
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...
This composition in particular held a sextet with one drummer, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, and a computer holding the recorded haunting voice of Nova to help create an even more liminal ...
A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...
While I used to be part of that crowd, airports have begun to grow on me. Airports exist in a strange, liminal space where time feels unreal. You could spend anywhere from one hour to three days there ...
Katy Perry hit back at the backlash she received for her Blue Origin space flight during the opening night of her “Lifetimes” tour. The “Dark Horse” singer, who kicked off her trek ...
She flew to space and she liked it. Katy Perry embraced her controversial Blue Origin space flight on the first night of her Lifetimes Tour in Mexico City on Wednesday. The 40-year-old singer ...
Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, the skeletons are from “a period which is very poorly documented in historical sources, and for which we have comparatively few ...
After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole ...
A medieval cemetery discovered in Wales is continuing to baffle archaeologists, revealing a community of women buried with signs of wealth, including a mysterious outcast thrown into a ditch.
Even the movie’s tone lands in a liminal space where gravitas slips into comedy — I couldn’t help but snicker when someone tells the main character, “Karsh, don’t crash!” A dry macabre ...
Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a ...