Glimpses of a Soviet Ghost Town on an Arctic Norwegian Isle
May 17, 2021
On the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a decaying settlement offers visitors an intimate look at the not-so-distant past.
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May 17, 2021
They Live in the U.S., but They’re Not Allowed to Come Home
May 17, 2021
Thousands of immigrants who live in the United States on temporary visas and traveled to India in recent weeks have been stranded there under the Biden administration’s travel ban.
Wildlife Is Now Thriving Again in Chernobyl–Even If Humans Won’t for Another 24,000 Years
May 17, 2021
In Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 sci-fi film Stalker, a mysterious artifact renders a landscape called the Zone inhospitable for humans. As critics have often pointed out, a tragic irony may have
Watch Accurate Recreations of Medieval Italian Longsword Fighting Techniques, All Based on a Manuscript from 1404
May 17, 2021
Given recent events, the prospect of hundreds of young men meeting on Facebook, then traveling from around the country to a central U.S. location might sound like reasonable cause for
The Cicadas Return After 17 Years: Stunning Footage of the Brood X Cicadas
May 17, 2021
Sing, fly, mate, die. The periodical cicadas in Brood X are emerging from underground, where they have spent the last 17 years as nymphs. They are making the final climb of their