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The British photographer creates convincing landscapes—deserts and rocky scenes—by piecing together photos of nude models
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The Secretary discusses his new e-book about how the Smithsonian will digitize its collections and crowdsource its research
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Octopus tentacles still react up to an hour after being severed from their dead owner, and even try to pick up food and feed a phantom mouth
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
Mineralogical clues point to the idea that the early Earth, starved of oxygen and submerged by a vast ocean, needed molecules from Mars to kick start life
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The internet of today touches the vast majority of the globe—and beyond—but not so long ago the net had a much more modest footprint
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Scientists watched the magnetic field of a star 51 light years away flip back and forth
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Abnormally cool waters in the Pacific, part of a natural cycle, have masked the underlying warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels
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Panda keeper Juan Rodriguez opens up about Mei Xiang's first days with her new cub, as well as a recent trip to a partner panda facility in China
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The ornate, well made carousels of the past are in danger - degrading, being sold piecemeal and sometimes even for parts
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Get an up-close look at the Smithsonian’s stunning Buddha
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The researchers coined the term "dispositional attitudes" as a new means of assessing a person's baseline outlook on the world
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How do you quantify the buzz around a movie? One group of researchers suggests looking at Wikipedia edits
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Mary and John Surratt helped John Wilkes Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln and then paid the ultimate penalty for their actions
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Two advocates track Western tiger swallowtails through the city and use art to encourage residents to think of the fluttering creatures as neighbors
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The Bureau of Land Management funded the center through mandatory fees for housing developers, but money dried up after the housing bubble burst
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For heart attack victims, life expectancy decreases by about 10 percent for every minute that ticks by after an emergency
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By burning down trees, wildfires open the door for future flooding
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The Moon was birthed from the Earth—a blob of molten rock sent spiraling off into space in the aftermath of a massive collision 4.5 billion years ago
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In the 1880's the Children's Hospital in Boston didn't have electricity, so it couldn't use X-rays. But the nearby Opera House did
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Construction equipment operators have to go through apprenticeships and training to learn to maneuver machines. But one company thinks that's all too hard
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