Plus, a rare baby spotless giraffe; a new clue in the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370; a Nat Geo quiz
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAGGIE STEBER | | At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental face transplant surgery.
Our face conveys who we are, telegraphing a kaleidoscope of emotions. It’s our doorway to the sensory world, allowing us to see, smell, taste, hear, and feel the breeze.
Just before the surgery, the surgeon said a silent prayer and looked at the face, a donation from a woman who died. It’s an amazing thing, he thought, what some people will do for others—to give them a heart or a liver, even a face.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON | | | The face: Sixteen hours into the transplant operation, surgeons finished the intricate task of removing the face from an organ donor. Awed by the sight and by the gravity of their work, the team fell suddenly silent as staff members documented the face in between its two lives. At top, Katie with her parents a year before the transplant. Read more. | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ROMAIN LATOURNERIE, XINHUA/EYEV/REDUX | | A new ocean clue: A barnacle-encrusted flaperon (above) was the first piece of debris found from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. That could lead scientists and researchers to discover the wreckage from the 2014 crash somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Here’s what we know.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY REMUS TIPLEA | | Oh, hello there: Photographer Remus Tiplea spent a summer mesmerized by the big-eyed, intricate, and colorful damselflies (three above) in his backyard in Romania. What he captured transports you into an almost Alice In Wonderland realm of wonder.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY BABAK TAFRESHI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Twinkle, twinkle: Gazing at a starry night sky invokes a sense of awe, a feeling of how small we really are. And knowing what you’re looking at adds yet another layer of appreciation for the vast world around us. With that in mind, we narrowed down the top five constellations you can spot with the naked eye. Which constellation is shown above, over Yosemite’s El Capitan?
A. Ursa Major
B. Orion
C. Andromeda
D. Elon Musk’s Starlink
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