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- Photos capture life inside a drop of seawater (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- NASA finds super-emitters of methane (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Why have female animals evolved such wild genitals? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- 5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Map of an Insect’s Brain (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Parrots will share currency to help their pals purchase food (2020) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Teenager invented a low-cost tool to spot elephant poachers (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- High schooler invented color-changing sutures to detect infection (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The last days of a 350-year-old family farm (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Photographer captured one image of Cambridge every day for 13 years (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Artist matches influencer photos with surveillance footage (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Sick Workers Connected to 41 Percent of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, CDC Reports (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- 2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Biologists discover four new octopus species (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (2017) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- What’s entering the public domain on January 1 (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- JWST Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Mini brains grown from stem cells developed eye-like features (2021) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Roman church decorated with 4k skeletons (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Archaeologists dig up 1,400-year-old Native American canal in Alabama (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Wealth as a predictor of whether an person pursues a creative profession (2019) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The inventor of ibuprofen tested the drug on his own hangover (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Martha Gellhorn, the only woman to report on the D-Day landings from the ground (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Century-old stone "tsunami stones" dot Japan's coastline (2015) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Haribo Goldbears, the world’s first gummy bears (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- A Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’ (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- How the ancient Romans managed their toilets (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Airliner Repair, 24/7 Boeing’s traveling fix-it team (2008) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Cache of 19th-Century Blue Jeans Discovered in Abandoned Arizona Mineshaft (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- When coal first arrived, Americans said 'no thanks' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Microplastics detected in human blood in new study (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Kudzu, the vine that never ate the south (2015) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Documenting Aramaic before its native speakers vanish (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- The Bulky Bears of Fat Bear Week 2021 (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- How does human echolocation work? (2017) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Masterpiece was hanging above an elderly French woman's hot plate (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Musicians wage war against evil robots (2012) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Canoes discovered northwest of Rome are oldest boats ever found in Mediterranean (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Discoveries made about human evolution in 2022 (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Ancient Maya city was hidden in the jungle for more than 1k years (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Brought to Life in 3-D Renderings (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- An Early Run-In with Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’ (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- A Fossilized Blood-Engorged Mosquito Is Found for the First Time Ever (2013) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Amateur archaeologist in Switzerland unearths 2k-year-old Roman dagger (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- 129-year-old vessel still tethered to lifeboat found on floor of Lake Huron (www.smithsonianmag.com)
- Eight Secret Societies (2016) (www.smithsonianmag.com)