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For 45 years, Aboriginal activist Gary Foley saved every poster, letter, and photograph from Australia's civil rights movement in his shed. Now housed at Victoria University, this one-of-a-kind collection lets Indigenous students preserve and share their own history.
Spain just declassified 153 documents revealing how King Juan Carlos helped stop armed officers from overthrowing democracy in 1981. The historic release ends 45 years of secrecy around one of Europe's most dramatic moments.
A haunting whale song from 1949 has been rediscovered in Massachusetts archives, offering scientists a rare window into ocean life before modern pollution changed everything. The recording captures a humpback whale when fewer than 1,000 remained in the North Atlantic.
Microsoft just perfected a way to store digital information in glass for thousands of years, potentially preserving human culture forever. The breakthrough uses lasers and ordinary glass to create nearly eternal archives.
A high school student used machine learning to discover 1.5 million previously unknown variable objects hidden in NASA's archives. Matteo Paz turned a summer project into a groundbreaking contribution to astronomy.
A new AI tool scanned 35 years of Hubble telescope data in just two and a half days, discovering over 800 cosmic objects that human astronomers had never documented. The breakthrough shows how artificial intelligence can help scientists unlock discoveries hiding in plain sight.
A new AI tool discovered over 1,300 rare cosmic objects hiding in 35 years of Hubble Space Telescope data, including colliding galaxies and mysterious phenomena that scientists can't even classify yet. The breakthrough shows how artificial intelligence can unlock decades of hidden discoveries waiting in space telescope archives.
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Nearly five years after fire devastated Cape Town's historic Jagger Library, thousands of rescued books and archives have found a new accessible home. While the original building awaits restoration, researchers can now access the salvaged African Studies Collection by appointment.
Britain's National Archives unveils a heartwarming collection of love letters spanning five centuries, from Queen Elizabeth I's romance to ordinary couples refusing to be separated. The exhibition proves love's power transcends time and status.
History is hitting the road. For America's 250th birthday, rare founding documents will fly across the country on a Boeing 737, bringing pieces of our nation's beginning to people who can't visit Washington, D.C.