Elana Spivack

Elana Spivack is a journalist with bylines in Scientific American, Slate, Popular Science and more. She lives in New York City with her tuxedo cat.

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Rare amber panels from this 'Eighth Wonder of the World' were lost to history amid Nazi looting.

These human remains pulled from peat wetlands offer insight into often violent human history.

In May 2000, the ILOVEYOU computer worm infected over 45 million computers in 24 hours—and revealed that we may have trusted email a little too much.