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The Surprising Evolution of Dinosaur Drawings

(via The Atlantic) Since the 1800s, paleoartists have tried to imagine what prehistoric creatures looked like—with wildly different results. Such

(via NPR) Astronomers in California are building the largest digital camera in the world. It will go on a giant telescope

(via Today I Found Out) Personally nominated for the Nobel Prize a record 84 times, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was

(via Atlas Obscura) The average household has around 100 species of arthropod, happily passing their days: centipedes in your storage

(via CollectSpace) It stood taller than the Statue of Liberty, was more massive than six Boeing 747 jetliners and generated

(via Amusing Planet) The story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple is one of the most famous anecdotes

(via Popular Mechanics) With 31 tons of copper and 125 tons of steel, the scrap value of the Statue of

(via Great Big Story) At the University of Texas, Dr. Kate Biberdorf is breaking stereotypes and blowing stuff up—all in

(via Atlas Obscura) Old Faithful is one of the most famous sights in Yellowstone National Park, but for all its

(via Mental Floss) Carl Sagan was perhaps America’s most beloved scientific visionary since Albert Einstein. Both a gifted astronomy researcher

(via Real Clear Science) The human body is incredibly resilient. When you donate a pint of blood, you lose about

(via Atlas Obscura) The hand of Anna Bertha Roentgen, wife of inventor and scientist Wilhelm Roentgen was the first radiograph,