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Every movie soundtrack tells a story—and few composers know more about musical storytelling than Hans Zimmer and Clint Mansell.

'A Marvelous Order' will explore the mid-century battle between the powerful Robert Moses and city activist Jane Jacobs.

Computer Show hosts from 1983 encounter guests from 2015. Hilarity ensues. ("Wait, let's go back to this...'web-site'?")

Who loves Tetris, Nintendo, and has two super-fast thumbs? These champs.

The flowers last for one day. This photographer captures them just in time!

The rediscovered animation is a holy grail for Monty Python fans.

"Fozzie, see, the thing of it is—you're not a real bear. You're not a real, natural bear." -Kermit

Medieval alchemists were obsessed with gold—and anything gold-colored.

"Science is Fiction"

Two researchers have set out to commit whales' otherwordly sound to paper.

The results are hypnotic.

Get up-close with chameleons, turtles, crocs, and more—watch out, they bite!

Kids’ TV show Pitagora Suitchi makes science fun.

Here's what went down when William F. Buckley interviewed the literary giant.

Humans have a long history of clever ideas that go horribly wrong.

Virtual reality is reinventing the grammar of storytelling.

Despina Makai was born in the 1700s, and filmed by her grandsons over 100 years later.

A chemist's guide to smelling good.

Comparative psychologist Fumihiro Kano and his collaborator Satoshi Hirata are using the movies to study long-term memory in apes.

Professor Frank Drake proposed a super-depressing formula explaining why we haven't gotten alien radio signals yet.

Computer graphics, speech synthesizers, and music—amazing for 47 years ago.

From proofreading the copy aloud to hand-sewing the binding, this art takes a lot of skilled people to come together.

You've never seen the desert landscape quite like this before.