Original illustration of a recovered silent-film reel and New Hampshire street scenes representing the journey of the 1919 comedy Van-ar-chy.

A 1919 Silent Comedy Thought Lost Turned Up in a Japanese Antique Shop—Now It’s Going Home

A 1919 Billy B. Van comedy, long believed lost, resurfaced in an antique shop in Japan. Now Van-ar-chy is returning to the New Hampshire town where it was filmed.

Original symbolic illustration of archival keys and a closed case file before an empty church aisle and television static; it does not depict Mathew Betkouski or actual evidence.

A 44-Year-Old ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Case Has a Name—and a Possible Tylenol Murders Lead

The man remembered from a 1990 Unsolved Mysteries segment has been identified. Investigators shared a possible Tylenol-murders lead, but the connection remains unproven and the Chicago case is still open.

Illustration of a young boy showing his parents a blank check at a kitchen table, representing the family moment Ke Huy Quan recalls.

Ke Huy Quan’s First Indiana Jones Residual Was Nearly $100,000—and He Credits Spielberg and Lucas for the Share

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Original illustration of a 1950s briefing room with an audio recorder, typed case files, and a radar diagram.

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Illustration of a large fawn-colored bullmastiff with a dark muzzle and broad build, inspired by documented photographs of Butkus.

Sylvester Stallone Says He Sold Butkus Because He Couldn’t Feed Him—Then His Rocky Dog Came Home

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An open copy of Amelia Earhart’s memoir with a tiny record tucked inside, beside a non-contact optical scanner in a conservation lab.

A Tiny Record Hidden in Amelia Earhart’s Memoir Sat Untouched for 94 Years—Then the Library of Congress Played It

A tiny record tucked inside Amelia Earhart’s 1932 memoir had never been played. The Library of Congress recovered its sound without touching the fragile disc.

A 35mm film canister and unspooled film sit in an archival cinema room beside a projector casting a blurred noir-style silhouette.

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16mm film reels and contact sheets in an archive editing room, with indistinct silhouettes on a viewer in an illustrative scene.

44 Recovered Film Rolls Bring Patti Smith, Frank Zappa and William S. Burroughs Back to 1978

Filmmaker Howard Brookner’s recovered 16mm footage from the 1978 Nova Convention shows Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Burroughs and other artists in a moment that was nearly lost.

Conceptual illustration of a transparent microfluidic chip with hinged artificial cilia pumping liquid through warm and cool channels.

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Cornell researchers built a microscopic array that senses temperature and synchronizes 54 artificial cilia to pump liquid. The machines respond together instead of simply moving on command.

An illustrative bigfin squid floats above a deep-sea floor, its large fins extended and its long arms hanging at elbow-like bends in the ROV lights.

A Bigfin Squid Appeared Two Miles Down—and Its Elbow-Like Arms Gave It Away

At 3,277 meters below the Pacific, an MBARI ROV caught a rare bigfin squid drifting into view. Its strange bent arms helped researchers identify it—and the institute’s original footage lets you see the encounter.

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