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The Dr. Is In: Cat-loving Paleontologist Answers Your Questions in New YouTube Series
Paleontologist Hans Sues answers your questions about dinosaurs, humans and cats in the Smithsonian's new YouTube series, "The Dr. Is In."
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The Madcap Chemists of Booze
At Lost Spirits Distillery in Los Angeles, high-tech instruments accelerate the aging process of precious whiskeys and rums
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These Haunting Red Dresses Memorialize Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
Artist Jaime Black says the REDress Project is an expression of her grief for thousands of Native victims
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How Did the White Picket Fence Become a Symbol of the Suburbs?
And why the epitome of the perfect house become so creepy
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A Journey to St. Helena, Home of Napoleon's Last Days
We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample the splendid desolation of the emperor's exile under a scornful British governor
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The Myth of Fingerprints
Police today increasingly embrace DNA tests as the ultimate crime-fighting tool. They once felt the same way about fingerprinting
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Untangling the Physics Behind Drifting Embers, 'Firenadoes' and Other Wildfire Phenomena
Fires can leap rapidly from building to building and even cause extreme weather events such as pyrocumulonimbus storm clouds
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The Computer Scientist Who Wants To Put a Name to Every Face in Civil War Photographs
As Virginia Tech's Kurt Luther perfects his facial recognition software Civil War Photo Sleuth, the discoveries keep coming
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The Bold Accomplishments of Women of Color Need to Be a Bigger Part of Suffrage History
An upcoming Smithsonian exhibition, “Votes For Women,” delves into the complexities and biases of the nature of persistence
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Paris' Hotel Lutetia Is Haunted by History
The ghosts of Nazis, French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors still inhabit the grand building on Paris’ famed Left Bank
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The Long Battle for Women's Suffrage
With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote
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The Rivalry Between Two Doctors to Implant the First Artificial Heart
Featuring titans of Texas medicine, the race was on to develop the cutting-edge technology
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How Business Executive Madam C. J. Walker Became a Powerful Influencer of the Early-20th Century
A tin of hair conditioner in the Smithsonian collections reveals a story of the entrepreneurial and philanthropic success of a former washerwoman
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For Those Living Nearby, the Memory of the Three Mile Island Accident Has a Long Half-Life
Robert Reid, then the mayor of nearby Middletown, recalls the partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor 40 years ago
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What Do Dragons Symbolize and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered
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Daesha Devón Harris Combines Oral History and Antique Portraits to Tell a Story of Loss and Hope
These layered works testify to African-American history
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A Souvenir from the Holy Land: On Henry Ossawa Tanner's "Abraham's Oak"
"Abraham’s Oak" memorializes a pilgrimage site that the artist likely visited during his travels in the 1890's
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The Mathematical Madness Behind a Perfect NCAA Basketball Bracket
Picking a perfect bracket is so unlikely that it will almost certainly never occur, even if March Madness continues for billions of years
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Fossil Treasure Trove of Ancient Animals Unearthed in China
The fossils from the Cambrian Period include dozens of new species and provide a window into life more than 500 million years ago
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Is That Wallaby Sprouting a Second Head?
Last week, the first baby wallaby to be born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in three decades poked its head out of its mother’s pouch
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How the Vietnam War Impacted American Art
Curator Melissa Ho reflects on her upcoming exhibition exploring how American artists responded to the turbulence of the Vietnam War
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