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Travel back in time in this Viking village
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How we loved this dog into a genetic bind
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Journey to the Center of Earth
Missions to study the other planetary bodies in our solar system could help solve the mystery of how our own came to be.
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Researchers have created bar codes so small they can be embedded in medications, creating a tool to combat the global problem of drug fraud
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They are on Earth, but life on other planets could play by different rules
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Grab your spoons—this delicious popup will melt in a month
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The solenodon survived the impact that killed the dinosaurs, but after all that, we might be its downfall.
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An evolutionary ecologist argues that cutting-edge genetic research that could lead to species extinction should be handled with care
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Photo Contest Featured Photographer
Florencia Mazza Ramsay traveled to Barrow, the northernmost town in the United States, to document life and research on the front lines of climate change
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For Smithsonian’s Lisa Kathleen Graddy and Jon Grinspan, it’s trying to guess what people of the future will want to know about 2016
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A hammerhead shark locates a stingray hiding beneath the ocean floor. Unnerved, the stingray makes a dash for freedom—but is it too late?
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Besides lending books, the local institutions are training young journalists, renting garden plots and more
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The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures
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Horace Greeley was the choice of the splinter grip named the Liberal Republican Party and that of the Democrats
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Ex-pat rebel sculptor Jimmie Durham's funny work is celebrated in the capital of the country he left
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Donald Harvey, a mild-mannered hospital worker, called himself the "Angel of Death"
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Donning facial masks, wearing Zika-proof uniforms and freezing sperm: Does any of this stuff actually work?
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University of Sydney engineers have developed a four-wheeled robot to keep tabs on massive farms in Australia's outback
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These armored reptiles have long been considered indestructible, but new threats are shifting the equation
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Discover 17th-century drinking games and coded political messages in this unique food tour of the Metropolitan Museum's art collection
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