RESCENE bring their new album to KGMA and take home four awards
Four trophies at the 2026 KGMA, WONI’s first awards-show hosting role, and performances of “With” and “Inside Out” from RESCENE’s fourth mini album, PULSE.
Culture
Samsung Lions win the Korean Series for the first time in 12 years
A 4–1 series win over KT, sealed in Daegu: series MVP Koo Ja-wook, Kang Min-ho’s first title, and the dugout on the day Samsung won the 2026 championship.
Dokk1, the library where a bell announces a baby’s birth
At Dokk1 in Aarhus, new parents can press a hospital button to ring a great bell and share the news with library visitors.
How did Edison record a human voice?
Edison’s 1877 phonograph indented tinfoil and traced it again, linking the recording of sound to its playback.
The shield-biting warriors among the Lewis chessmen
The Lewis chessmen give individual faces to pieces with the same role. Their mouths, eyes and gestures reward a closer look.
Talking books for blind readers needed players, too
A recorded book needs a way to be heard. America’s talking-book service provided for players as well as recordings, with a programme to produce 5,000 machines in 1935.
A century-old color photograph made from three black-and-white exposures
Prokudin-Gorsky photographed scenes through three filters. Misaligned colours can preserve traces of movement between exposures.
Listening to old records without lowering a needle
The Library of Congress’s IRENE project reconstructs sound by imaging record grooves.
The Library of Congress adds Doom’s music to its preservation registry
Doom’s soundtrack joined the US National Recording Registry in 2026. Its selection offers a way to consider how music becomes part of our memories of games.
A book made by laying seaweed on blue paper
Anna Atkins placed algae specimens on light-sensitive paper and used sunlight to record their shapes.
The museum pen that let visitors save objects to revisit
Cooper Hewitt used The Pen from 2015 to 2020 to let visitors collect exhibit information. We revisit a tool that carried an exhibition beyond the museum visit.
At the Rijksmuseum, You Can Watch Conservators Work on Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
The Rijksmuseum studies and treats Rembrandt’s The Night Watch in a space visitors can see. Looking at the painting also means seeing some of the work that goes into caring for it.