How Scientists Are Using Real-Time Data to Help Fishermen Avoid Bycatch
Using a strategy called dynamic ocean management, researchers are creating tools to forecast where fish will be—and where endangered species won't be
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Using a strategy called dynamic ocean management, researchers are creating tools to forecast where fish will be—and where endangered species won't be
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How Scientists Are Using Real-Time Data to Help Fishermen Avoid Bycatch
Using a strategy called dynamic ocean management, researchers are creating tools to forecast where fish will be—and where endangered species won't be
How Broadway Legends Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon Made Headlines Long Before ‘Fosse/Verdon’
She was a megawatt performer, one of the best Broadway dancers of the last century, but it’s his influence that is remembered today
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She was a megawatt performer, one of the best Broadway dancers of the last century, but it’s his influence that is remembered today
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How Broadway Legends Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon Made Headlines Long Before ‘Fosse/Verdon’
She was a megawatt performer, one of the best Broadway dancers of the last century, but it’s his influence that is remembered today
Inside Professor Nanayakkara’s Futuristic Augmented Human Lab
An engineer at the University of Auckland asks an important question: What can seamless human-computer interfaces do for humanity?
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An engineer at the University of Auckland asks an important question: What can seamless human-computer interfaces do for humanity?
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Inside Professor Nanayakkara’s Futuristic Augmented Human Lab
An engineer at the University of Auckland asks an important question: What can seamless human-computer interfaces do for humanity?
When California Went to War Over Eggs
As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over another substance of a similar hue: the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony
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As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over another substance of a similar hue: the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony
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When California Went to War Over Eggs
As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over another substance of a similar hue: the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony
What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us
The first pictures of the sky were taken on glass photographic plates, and these treasured artifacts can still help scientists make discoveries today
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The first pictures of the sky were taken on glass photographic plates, and these treasured artifacts can still help scientists make discoveries today
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What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us
The first pictures of the sky were taken on glass photographic plates, and these treasured artifacts can still help scientists make discoveries today
What Do We Really Know About Neanderthals?
Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that the species long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes deserve a new place in the human story
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Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that the species long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes deserve a new place in the human story
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What Do We Really Know About Neanderthals?
Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that the species long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes deserve a new place in the human story
New Scholarship Is Revealing the Private Lives of China’s Empresses
Lavish paintings, sumptuous court robes, objets d’art tell the stories of Empress Cixi and four other of the most powerful Qing dynasty women
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Lavish paintings, sumptuous court robes, objets d’art tell the stories of Empress Cixi and four other of the most powerful Qing dynasty women
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New Scholarship Is Revealing the Private Lives of China’s Empresses
Lavish paintings, sumptuous court robes, objets d’art tell the stories of Empress Cixi and four other of the most powerful Qing dynasty women
Last Night, I Watched Notre-Dame Burn
Our own travel writer, in Paris yesterday, recounts her experience witnessing the devastating fire at the cathedral
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Our own travel writer, in Paris yesterday, recounts her experience witnessing the devastating fire at the cathedral
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Last Night, I Watched Notre-Dame Burn
Our own travel writer, in Paris yesterday, recounts her experience witnessing the devastating fire at the cathedral
The Last of the Great American Hobos
Hop a train to Iowa, where proud vagabonds gather every summer to crown the new king and queen of the rails
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Hop a train to Iowa, where proud vagabonds gather every summer to crown the new king and queen of the rails
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The Last of the Great American Hobos
Hop a train to Iowa, where proud vagabonds gather every summer to crown the new king and queen of the rails
The History of the Spelling Bee
Even in the age of autofill, America is still in love with the centuries-old tradition
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Even in the age of autofill, America is still in love with the centuries-old tradition
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The History of the Spelling Bee
Even in the age of autofill, America is still in love with the centuries-old tradition
The World's Weirdest Architectural Feat Involves Building a Cathedral With Ninth-Century Tools
In a German forest, artisans fleeing modernity build a time machine to the medieval age
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In a German forest, artisans fleeing modernity build a time machine to the medieval age
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The World’s Weirdest Architectural Feat Involves Building a Cathedral With Ninth-Century Tools
In a German forest, artisans fleeing modernity build a time machine to the medieval age
How T.C. Cannon and His Contemporaries Changed Native American Art
In the 1960s, a group of young art students upended tradition and vowed to show their real life instead
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In the 1960s, a group of young art students upended tradition and vowed to show their real life instead
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How T.C. Cannon and His Contemporaries Changed Native American Art
In the 1960s, a group of young art students upended tradition and vowed to show their real life instead
A Smithsonian Art Historian Reflects on American Artists and Their Fascination with Notre Dame
Senior curator Eleanor Harvey on why the cathedral has been beloved by American artists for years
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Senior curator Eleanor Harvey on why the cathedral has been beloved by American artists for years
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Notre Dame
On April 15, 2019, the world watched as the Cathedral of Notre Dame caught fire, destroying much of one of the most important buildings in the world. Senior Curator Eleanor Harvey describes the allure of Paris and Notre Dame on American artists after the…
Thank One of America's Most Prolific Inventors for the Hinged Plastic Easter Egg
Donald Weder holds some 1,400 U.S. patents for inventions, including the ubiquitous egg and a process for making plastic Easter grass
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Donald Weder holds some 1,400 U.S. patents for inventions, including the ubiquitous egg and a process for making plastic Easter grass
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Thank One of America’s Most Prolific Inventors for the Hinged Plastic Easter Egg
Donald Weder holds some 1,400 U.S. patents for inventions, including the ubiquitous egg and a process for making plastic Easter grass
How Scientists Are Recapturing the Magic of a Beloved, Long-Lost Tomato
Wiped out by disease and market demands, the Rutgers tomato may be making a comeback
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Wiped out by disease and market demands, the Rutgers tomato may be making a comeback
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How Scientists Are Recapturing the Magic of a Beloved, Long-Lost Tomato
Wiped out by disease and market demands, the Rutgers tomato may be making a comeback
At the Edge of the Ice
Deep inside the Arctic Circle, Inuit hunters embrace modern technology but preserve a traditional way of life
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Deep inside the Arctic Circle, Inuit hunters embrace modern technology but preserve a traditional way of life
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At the Edge of the Ice
Deep inside the Arctic Circle, Inuit hunters embrace modern technology but preserve a traditional way of life
This Library in Anchorage Lends Out Taxidermy Specimens
All you need to check out a snowy owl or a mounted rockfish is a library card
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All you need to check out a snowy owl or a mounted rockfish is a library card
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This Library in Anchorage Lends Out Taxidermic Specimens
All you need to check out a snowy owl or a mounted rockfish is a library card
NASA Prepares to Build Spacecraft Bound for a Metal Asteroid
The Psyche spacecraft, headed to an asteroid with the same name, will explore a metal world thought to be the leftover core of a destroyed planet
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The Psyche spacecraft, headed to an asteroid with the same name, will explore a metal world thought to be the leftover core of a destroyed planet
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NASA Prepares to Build Spacecraft Bound for a Metal Asteroid
The Psyche spacecraft, headed to an asteroid with the same name, will explore a metal world thought to be the leftover core of a destroyed planet