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Sarah Laskow

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Found: A Bloody Stone Axe From 250,000 Years Ago

A test revealed residue of blood and tissue from horses, cattle, camels and rhinos.

August 11, 2016

Found: An Underground Meth Lab in a Walmart Parking Lot

The Walmart stayed open while police dove down in.

August 10, 2016

A Wawa Fan's Confession: I Think I Might Like Sheetz

The only thing to do was to put Pennsylvania's best convenience store sandwiches in a head-to-head match-up.

Found: A Lot of Planets, Minerals, and Strange Creatures in 'No Man's Sky'

The long anticipated game is finally here.

Found: A Prosthetic Leg Stuck in a Beaver Dam

Its owner was also, well, found.

The Tale of Rival, North Dakota, Which Never Had a Chance

The now-abandoned town was supposed to be rivals with Lignite, N.D., but it failed.

Connecting Black Neighborhoods to the Black Lives Matter Movement

How does hypersegregation and disinvestment contribute to police violence?

Found: Fugitive Red Panda That Spent 242 Days on the Lam

The last of three escapees is brought to heel.

Found: Secret, Illicit Tunnels in an Oregon Park

Police are not happy.

Found: A Giant Clock Washed Away in a Once-in-a-Millennium Flood

Ellicott City, Maryland recently saw a lot of rain.

18th Century Britain's Great Culinary Breakthrough: Mushroom Ketchup

It's kind of gross! But not as gross as it sounds.

Found: A Family of Bears, Inside the House

There was a mama bear and two baby bears.

Resurrecting the Incredible Flower Crowns of Old Ukrainian Wedding Photos

Pinterest boards around the world, unite.

Found: A Carton of a Dozen Eggs, All With Double Yolks

The odds are one in a thousand trillion.

Found: A 3,000-Year-Old Ball of Yarn

It's very delicate.

space exploration

Found: A Star Hundreds of Light-Years From Any Others

Normally stars form in groups.

Found: Mysterious Bright Purple Blob, Floating in the Deep Sea

Could be a nudibranch.

In 1972, Two Women Ran For President. It Didn't Go Well.

Even feminists hesitated to support a female candidate.

The World's Most Lightning-Prone Place Has the World's First Lightning Forecasts

The cause of the Catatumbo Lightning is no longer a mystery.

Found: Really Stinky 340-Year-Old Cheese From a Shipwreck

The researchers who found it compared it to Roquefort.

Found: Nodes in an Anonymity-Protecting Network That Are Actually Spying on Users

Tor is used for anonymity, so it's a problem if parts of it are collecting data.

Found: Evidence That Cat-Sized 'Rat-Kangaroos' Once Hopped the Earth

Related: What exactly is a bettong?

The Joy of Pronking

A deer can effortlessly jump high into the air; so can a flea. But are humans capable of the same tasks with our dumb legs?

underwater week

I Would Walk 500 Miles, and I Would Walk 500 More, Just to Be the Man Who Walked 1,000 Miles Out on the Ocean Floor

It would be a hard 3,000 miles.