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Limited to 750 hand-numbered editions, the gorgeous Plants of the Americas is the first facsimile the edition of Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia (1763) by botanist Nikolaus von Jacquinheld, an epic tome that’s part of …
With 100% of proceeds going to Decriminalize Nature—an initiative focused on making all of nature’s psychoactive plants and fungi legal—this poster by artist James Madison Mitchell was commissioned by Madre mezcal, a …
Macy Huston, a PhD candidate in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, and Jason Wright, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the university, have penned a thought-provoking essay on technosignatures—or the …
The potential of prickly pear cactus, a mummified dinosaur, floating farms and more
Upon discovering that renowned American climatologist Kim Cobb did not have a Wikipedia page, Jess Wade (British physicist and research fellow at Imperial College London) penned her entry—before continuing on a quest …
Insights into the Mesozoic era usually come from fossilized bones, making the preserved skin of “Dakota”—a duck-billed dinosaur from an Edmontosaurus specimen—particularly rare. The finding, discovered in South Dakota in 1999, is …
A cosmic fingerprint, cooling with terracotta, a map explaining what Indigenous territory you're on and more
Emanated by the duo of stars called the Wolf-Rayet 140 system, 17 dust rings thousands of light years away have been captured by the James Webb Telescope. The image of these concentric …
A Native American woman in space, Nick Cave's new textiles, tightening rules for orbital debris and more
An AI art exhibition, a structure that predates Stonehenge, raising awareness about unpaid labor in prisons and more