Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, the Milwaukee Art Museum painting wagered on the 2026 World Series

Two Museums Bet Monets on the World Series—The Winning City Gets Both

Milwaukee and St. Petersburg museums wagered two Claude Monet paintings on the 2026 World Series. The winning city will temporarily display both.

Rubin Observatory mosaic showing 2026 ED138 moving through a densely crowded Milky Way star field across multiple 2026 dates

Rubin Found a Possible Dwarf Planet Hiding in the Milky Way’s Most Crowded Stars

Rubin Observatory found 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto—and then traced the possible dwarf planet through ten years of images where nobody knew to look.

Life reconstruction of Paludohadros proudlovii, a long-bodied four-legged iguanodontian dinosaur

Paludohadros Was Found 25 Years Ago. Now It Carries the Name of a Quarry Manager Who Never Saw It

A Surrey dinosaur found 25 years ago is now a new genus named for quarry manager Will Proudlove, who died shortly before its excavation.

Head-on view of the Voynich Manuscript showing its layered parchment pages and binding

The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Read in the Wrong Order for a Century

A new study argues the Voynich Manuscript may have been bound out of order, meaning codebreakers could be analyzing the mystery in the wrong sequence.

The ancient Lycurgus Cup viewed from above, with green carved figures surrounding ruby-red glass at the British Museum

This Roman Cup Turns From Green to Red. A New Sculpture Recreates the Trick.

A Sheffield technician and a glass artist have recreated the Lycurgus Cup’s green-to-red transformation in a new sculpture. The real breakthrough is more precise than the headlines.

Medieval skeletal remains lying inside the reused Roman sarcophagus from Westminster Abbey.

The Roman Coffin at Westminster Held a Medieval Skeleton—and Traces of Another Coffin

A Roman dedication, a medieval cross and the ghostly outline of a wooden coffin reveal three layers of history inside Westminster Abbey’s reused sarcophagus.

Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, with a dark cypress, swirling blue sky, bright stars and a yellow crescent Moon above a village.

The Moon in Van Gogh’s Starry Night Points to a Different Date—But His Letter Gets in the Way

A new sky reconstruction points to July 22, 1889. Van Gogh’s June letter and a disputed view of the landscape keep the famous painting’s date from becoming a solved mystery.

A full-size touring car mounted on the Sega Touring Car Championship arcade attraction at Kyoto Joypolis.

Sega Put an Entire Car in an Arcade With a Blair Witch Walk-Through

A new photo archive preserves Sega’s full-car racing cockpit, a Blair Witch attraction and Shenmue’s forklift booth—the strange physical world around Japan’s turn-of-the-millennium games.

Ribs and front and back views of Shanidar A’s shoulder blade, showing a round perforation.

A Neanderthal Shoulder Blade May Preserve a Fatal Spear Wound

A round hole suggests a fatal penetrating injury. A split tooth records something different: survival after earlier harm. The evidence from Shanidar Cave supports a complex story, not a solved murder.

Close-up of a gray pyrrhotite-rich rock from Escanaba Trough, with glittering mineral grains and yellowish patches against a black background.

Deep-Sea Rocks Started Smoking Before Researchers Switched On the Grinder

Two rocks recovered from the deep Pacific heated and smoked during laboratory preparation. The surprise was not hidden petroleum: a changed mineral structure offered the stronger explanation.

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