The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for collectors around the world
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In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history
Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects
The new discovery is the first of its kind in New York state for at least 11 years and appeared in a county rich with mastodon remains
The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece
The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for collectors around the world
At the Smithsonian's National Design Museum, a Home Is What You Make of It
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Read Some of the Most Exciting Stories From the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2024
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The magazine's most-read articles of the year included a close-up look at the adorable yet venomous pygmy slow loris, a profile of a little-known 20th-century street photographer and a majestic journey with divers into Mexico’s underwater caves
Could the waterway that the city was built around make a comeback?
Architecture students at the University of Hong Kong invented a cooling apparatus that attaches to a construction helmet
These top titles of the year whisk readers away on adventures and remind us of the many wonders in this world
Step right up and see the spooky circus dolls—from creepy clowns to frightening fortune-tellers—in a Minnesota museum's vintage toy collection
Yitskhok Rudashevski documented his life while hiding from Nazis, as well as folklore told in his community that “must be collected and preserved as a treasure for the future”
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