The 21-year-old Real Salt Lake midfielder, with his bleached hair and dozens of tattoos, stands out on the soccer field. But ...

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A painting covered in soot was found in the attic of a barn and “had probably been there 100 years” turned out to be by a 17th century Dutch master. Sothebys1744 / CC BY 4.0-sized ...

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They brought it to Nancy Krieg, a leading art conservator in New York City. With chemical solvents and soft cotton swabs, she pulled back the grime of many decades. A blue sky emerged.

In less than two minutes of bidding, it sold Wednesday at the auction house with a hammer price of $6 million ($7.37 million with fees), a record for Frans Post, the Dutch Old Master who painted ...

Any remains will then be removed using a cotton swab under a microscope. The process of reconstruction of the trimmed edges of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Photo: Rijksmuseum/Reinier Gerritsen.

Using a cotton swab like a plunger in the ear canal pushes earwax deeper and deeper in. One problem is that if you push the wax deeper inside, there’s no way for the wax to get swept out of the ear.

The lastswab may be a reusable Q-Tip (which replaces up to 1,000 disposable cotton swabs), but it’s also an item I’ve had a slightly cultish obsession with since I first set eyes on it.