Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux beat out 32 competitors in 1858 for the right to design Central Park. bit.ly/3JCCKo3

Today, an area with a roughly 19-mile radius surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is essentially uninhabited by humans—but it hosts hundreds of dogs. bit.ly/44g1sUy

A sword unearthed in Spain and nicknamed “Excalibur” after King Arthur’s legendary blade is more than 1,000 years old, researchers say. bit.ly/3JzGPsW

New DNA research is shedding light on the lifestyle of a warrior people called the Avars, a mysterious group who ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe around 1,500 years ago. bit.ly/44jvYwN

These footprints, left behind by a 16-foot-long creature some 96 million years ago, represent the biggest raptor tracks ever found. bit.ly/4b9V2Zu

It's almost gonna be May and that brings a new video series, EMS Day National Museum of American History and showcasing objects for Jewish American Heritage Month. bit.ly/44oLub2

Foreboding depictions of a Japanese ghost story and others like it populate the “Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints” exhibition Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. bit.ly/3UAhIN4

As the recent collapse of Baltimore’s majestic Francis Scott Key Bridge reminded us, these iconic spans are not just beautiful to look at, they represent the lifeblood of our communities and economies. bit.ly/4dbSZG5

Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. While some of these towns capture the sense of roughness and lawlessness that characterized the Wild West, others enshrine a far more illustrious boom-town past. Travel Nevada #sponsored bit.ly/3Uy1unK

The late queen’s relationship with her dogs has been immortalized in bronze: A seven-foot-tall statue of Elizabeth II and her dogs. bit.ly/4dgO6vn

Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second living person to receive a transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney. bit.ly/3UAPz8A

Also known as twisters, these violent cyclones can reach wind speeds of 300 miles per hour and blaze a path of destruction that can last from mere seconds to several hours. bit.ly/49Wi7Ov

After decades of excavations in Italy, archaeologists have discovered a villa that could have belonged to Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. bit.ly/4aR9eqv

Deepwater coral specialist Andrea Quattrini’s new paper pins the origin of bioluminescence in corals to more than 500 million years ago. bit.ly/3Qk64DI

A recent adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell’s 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia. bit.ly/4dgDj4E

Scientists proposed recognizing a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, marked by rapid changes beginning in the mid-20th century. bit.ly/3UCWXAA

Using historical evidence, two scientists argue the female chemist was more involved in discovering DNA’s structure than she got credit for. bit.ly/3Uym2MF

Anzac Day commemorates the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915— the countries’ first major action against what was then the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany, in World War I. bit.ly/3UhVEVZ