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Rolling Stone has brought together its most memorable magazine covers, feature articles, quotes, photos, and videos from the Eighties to today ahead of this year’s Grammy Awards. “We are delighted to showcase our deep archives to a new audience,” said Gus Wenner, CEO of Rolling Stone. “It’s incredible to revisit the icons that have graced our pages over the decades in one place.”  The showcase offers a retrospective look of “Album of the Year” winners and current nominees through the publication’s lens,…

People have always been fascinated with the question of human longevity. In this 1954 piece for Technology Review, James A. Tobey, author of more than a dozen books on public health, including Your Diet for Longer Life (1948), noted that despite a few frauds claiming to be older than 150, “the consensus of scientific opinion is that there is a definite limit to human life, a limit now and perhaps forever in the vicinity of 100 years.”  In 1954, the average life expectancy of an American at birth had risen to 68 years…

The artist formerly known as Kanye West has been sued for more than $400,000 over rented archival pieces, per a new report.According to Billboard, a complaint filed this week in Los Angeles from the David Casavant Archive accuses Ye of owing thousands in unpaid fees. Additionally, Ye is alleged to have not returned 13 rented pieces. As for the $400K figure, that’s reported to include unpaid fees of $221,810 plus another $195,100 to potentially replace the pieces.The Casavant Archive is said to point to its previously…

Researchers have found over 1,700 asteroid trails in archived Hubble data from the last 20 years. While many of the asteroids are previously known, more than 1,000 are not. What good are another 1,000 asteroids? Like all asteroids, they could hold valuable clues to the Solar System's history.  As time passes and more and more telescopes perform more and more observations, their combined archival data keeps growing. Sometimes discoveries lurk in that data that await new analytical tools or renewed efforts from scientists…