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Good news: we’ve made it through the worst day of the year. Perhaps you have wondered what it sounds like inside the world’s deepest holes. Computers watching movies. Abandoned prisons are basically the creepiest things. Here are some pictures of…

Back in action. Very important news: dogs poop along a magnetic axis. The world is pretty neat because it includes things like Victoria Crowned Pigeons. Also because there is a giant serpent skeleton in the Loire River. Perhaps you would…

We here at MC are going to be taking the holidays off, so this it for 2013! It’s been a pleasure as always. The Big Picture’s year in pictures part 2 (be sure to look for part 3, which will…

It’s the end of the year, which means things like this. 2013 in Science (hooray for the olinguito!) The Big Picture has begun their always fantastic year-in-review. Here are the films the Library of Congress are adding this year (the…

Yes, Neanderthals buried their dead. Meanwhile: the future is vertical cemeteries! Can sci-fi survive in Saudi Arabia? Younger siblings of the world, beware of the baby illusion! Hey look, Europa seems to have plate tectonics too.  

My favorite Christmas tradition is the burning of Gavle Goat (spoiler alert: yes it burned again this year). This is real big: China has landed on the moon. This is similarly real big: turns out the universe could totally collapse…

Oh right, it’s almost Christmas (Budapest style). You guys, the volcano under Yellowstone is terrifyingly big. We’re all here today because of how scary snakes are. Another look inside CERN. Victorian parents being creepers.

Yes, but why do we have squirrels? I have a legal obligation to link to anything with the word “aquanaut” in it. Gods of the ancients. Here is an article about time crystals or something else I don’t really understand…

Meet Peggy, the strange object at the edge of Saturn’s rings. Scientists prove the universe is a hologram. (“prove”) Scientists also claim to have found the coldest place on earth. Related: now you can use a cellphone on Antarctica. I…

Sadly chimpanzees are not (legal)  persons (yet). Behold the minimum wage machine! On the Smithsonian’s 1200-year-old phone. We all need some lovely subway station design porn from time to time. The Earth is ruled by superbugs.

Mandela’s Struggle in Posters. Photographing Norwegian reindeer herders and the American frontier. Sad fact: 75 percent of all American silent films are lost forever. Bug mimicry is pretty fascinating.