Photography

The Unknown Martyrs Who Became Catacomb Saints

Relics of saint and holy people have always been an integral part of Christianity. There was a time when bones,…

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High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier’s Ice Melt

For 150 years tourists have been traveling to the town of Belvédère, high in the Alps of southern Switzerland, for…

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Waterloopbos: Where Dutch Engineers Learned to Play With The Sea

A quarter of Netherlands lie below the sea level. Most of these low-lying areas are land reclaimed from the sea.…

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Space Photos of the Week: Keeping an Eye on Jupiter’s Storms

Jupiter has one of the most bizarre atmospheres in the entire solar system. Gas giants like Jupiter are believed to…

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Tsar Tank | Amusing Planet

Before World War I, military tanks were a mere concept. Leonardo da Vinci made sketches of a human-powered armored vehicle,…

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Space Photos of the Week: Cassini’s Curtain Call

In 1997, NASA launched a spacecraft to Saturn. This intrepid explorer, called Cassini, spent the better part of 13 years…

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Vennbahn: The Railway That Created a Peculiar Border Problem

Germany and Belgium’s border problem. Photo: gunnsteinlye/Flickr Along the German-Belgian border runs an old disused railway track, the Vennbahn. It…

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The Eerie Stillness of Empty Schoolyards

Before Covid-19 hit the San Francisco Bay Area, photojournalist Justin Sullivan could upload a raw file to Getty Images in…

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The Bayeux Tapestry | Amusing Planet

History is not always written. Sometimes it’s carved. Sometimes it’s embroidered. In a museum in Bayeux, in Normandy, is such…

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