For centuries Europeans debated a plant that grew woolly lambs. Thom Sliwowski traces the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from Mandeville to fern roots and cotton.
Type: Article7 min
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Plant That Grew Sheep
Oct 16, 2026
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Louis Pope Gratacap and the First T. Rex in Fiction
Oct 15, 2026
Museum curator Louis Pope Gratacap’s 1915 lost-world novel The New Northland may be the first fiction to feature Tyrannosaurus — months before the AMNH skeleton debut.
Type: Article6 min
Music Training Changes How the Brain Reads Music
Oct 13, 2026
A Hong Kong study finds musicians, learners and non-musicians use different brain-side strategies when reading scores — and formal training is the factor that shifts the balance.
Type: Article8 min
Herculaneum Scrolls: How Lead Ink Could Unlock Buried Texts
Oct 7, 2026
Scientists burned replica scrolls to learn how to read the real ones. The trick: lead in ancient ink, revealed by X-ray.
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