Stories by curtis

Research group finds way to turn plastic waste products into jet fuel

1808/1809 Mystery Eruption

During World War II, Steinway Produced Special Pianos for American Troops

The Queen City Burns: The Great Seattle Fire of 1889

Boom XB-1 Baby Boom

DNA from 31,000-year-old teeth: discovery of new group of ancient Siberians

Researchers solve mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter

Giant logged long ago but not forgotten (2011)

Researchers shed light on the complex evolutionary past of bedbugs

A smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children

A long-lost vessel from the 1800s was found by accident as NOAA tested equipment

One couple’s private efforts to help the Seattle homeless

“18 Money”: The Ho-Chunk Nation's Children’s Trust Fund

We Need a Word for Destructive Group Outrage

An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist

A Rocket Built by Students Reaches Space

What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript [pdf]

The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text

Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later

Conversion of the Voynich MS's handwritten text into a computer-readable format

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