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Blooms, fragrance grace Seattle winter garden A visit to the UW Botanic Gardens Joseph A. Witt Winter Garden refreshes the senses.

NASA tested a 3D-printed rocket engine, and it worked Some 75% of the parts were 3D printed.

Scientists Are Looking for Time Travelers on the Internet Not many people have just come out and asked: Hey, is there anyone out there from the future?

Confirmed: The CIA's most famous ship headed for the scrapyard In the early 1970s, CIA built the Hughes Glomar Explorer to do the impossible: retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. It almost worked. The ship's had a less exciting life since then, and its final chapter will soon come to a close.

An Illustrated Study of Black Cats, the “Little Aliens” of the Feline World All Black Cats Are Not Alike, by writer-illustrator duo Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle, is a true feat in the age-old tradition of cat art.

BOMB Archive: Vito Acconci & Richard Prince in Conversation "For me, insanity would be like a vacation, or a belief in god; out of desperation, you let yourself fall into it."

Portland Now Generates Electricity From Turbines Installed In City Water Pipes Water flowing through the city's pipes will generate electricity like a dam with none of the environmental consequences

This year, these maps made us see the world differently Migrating coastlines, urban parking sprawl, and rivers running through it: These maps made our days in 2015.

Portrait of Josef Koudelka - The Eye of Photography Interviews with Josef Koudelka are rare, but he recently granted one to Christian Caujolle for Le Monde. We would like to thank Josef Koudelka,Christian Caujolle and Le Monde for agreeing to let us reprint it here. Koudelka preferred that we use an earlier version of the interview than the one which…

‘Bone music’: Soviet-era bootleg records of banned rock and jazz pressed on X-ray plates What do you do if you’re living in the USSR in, say, 1957, and you’d like to press an illegal record of some banned rock and roll or jazz? Consumer tape recorders don’t exist, and in the USSR, vinyl is difficult to come by. How do you proceed? One thing you might do is press your contraband beats…

Important Buildings We Lost in 2015 It was a brutal year for concrete architecture.