Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Sources: Al Drago / The Washington Post / Getty; Library of Congress; Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post / Getty. George Washington, this nation’s first ...

I followed a Bob Ross Painting tutorial but instead of using paintbrushes, I used a bunch of random objects like a Snickers bar, a bag of Cheetos, and a toy car. Needless to say it didn't go fantastic ...

In the pursuit of space exploration, humans have broken records that were previously thought impossible. At the same time, terrible accidents have marred the history of space flight, making later ...

The moment of discovery was particularly impressive for the underwater archaeologists. Diving in Lake Neuchâtel, Fabien Langenegger and Julien Pfyffer made a spectacular discovery from the Roman ...

A woman reflects on the suspicious death of her boarding school classmate in Raphael’s riveting debut. In chapters titled “Before,” 15-year-old Lenny Winter describes her childhood on a houseboat in ...

It might not seem like the most likely inspiration for a horror video game, but James Muirhead says working in a Scottish fish and chip shop provided the perfect setting for his latest creation. "I ...

For decades, black holes have been described as extreme objects with immense gravity. However, new theoretical work suggests they may not be objects in the traditional sense at all. Instead, ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously thought—according to new research from neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin.

2025 brought us political, cultural and economic chaos, but it also gave us plenty of tangible objects to obsess over, buy and meme. There were the silly, monster-like dolls that sparked a craze among ...

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into ...