Kira Grün

13/06/2023

A detail of the siege of Osaka Castle depicted on a folding screen

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

23/05/2023

Claudia Severa’s 1,900-year-old birthday invitation to Sulpician Lepidina is one of the earliest-known examples of a woman writing in Latin.

09/05/2023

The delicate Coronation Spoon is one of only a few regalia objects that survived being melted down after the 17th century civil war and may possibly have originally been made for Henry II or Richard I.

11/04/2023

Lamproderma scintillans
On a forest walk, look in damp areas for tiny, striking slime molds; these stalks topped with jewel-like spheres grow on the edge of a leaf. Andy Sands’s images in this article capture slime molds in the reproductive stage, when they’re easiest to spot.

20/03/2023

Most scientists arrive in Gothic in late spring and leave just before snowfall. The cabin billy barr calls home is among the few buildings occupied year-round.