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Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Screenplay ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’ Was Never Made. Can A.I. Bring It to Life?
The Dalí Museum is collaborating with an advertising agency to "reawaken" the Spanish artist's failed script, which studio ...
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This Amateur Art Detective Thinks Paul Gauguin’s Last Self-Portrait Is a Fake
The new allegations come from Fabrice Fourmanoir, who previously identified a fraudulent Gauguin sculpture that the Getty ...
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What’s the Best Way to Cut Onions Without Crying? New Research Suggests That Thin, Sharp Blades Are Key to Minimizing Tears
For a new study, physicists visualized and quantified the tear-producing droplets that get expelled from onions when they're ...
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Humpback Whales Give Birth Much Farther South Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
Researchers in Australia found records of humpback whale calves more than 900 miles farther south than expected ...
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A New Exhibition Brings Fresh Recognition to a Groundbreaking But Largely Forgotten Surrealist
British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun was a pioneer of Surrealist “automatism,” creating images from charcoal shavings ...
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In a Remarkable First, a Baby With a Rare Disease Receives Personalized Gene Therapy
Researchers say the CRISPR-based technique used could eventually be employed to treat more people with rare genetic diseases ...
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Boxes Full of Nazi Propaganda Discovered in the Basement of Argentina’s Supreme Court
Workers found crates packed with swastika-covered notebooks, postcards and photographs while preparing to move the court's ...
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The Shipwrecks From John Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Were Exactly Where the Inuit Said They Would Be
British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...
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Harvard Bought This Stained Copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. It Turned Out to Be an Original
Issued by Edward I in 1300, this version of the historic text is one of only seven known surviving copies. It's been hiding ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
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See Flannery O’Connor’s Little-Known Visual Artworks That Had Been Collecting Dust in Storage
From childhood cartoons to thoughtful self-portraits, the acclaimed Southern writer was always a keen observer of her ...
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Birds Are Dying Mysterious, Violent Deaths in This Northern California Neighborhood—and No One Can Explain Why
Mourning doves, European starlings, crows and other common backyard species have been found dead on a residential street in Richmond, California, in recent months. Pixabay Residents of a Northern ...