/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/c3/74/c37401b4-797f-42fa-a8ed-c7fc2b9f022b/untitled_4.png)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/5f/b6/5fb65c16-c976-45a8-a34f-9a6ac51729a4/screen_shot_2016-10-06_at_122200_pm.png)
The Draconid and Orionid meteor showers will streak across night skies this month
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/92/50/92500bc6-6572-47ca-986f-4cde8db3dd7d/kirobo_mini_01_9bc10b1659747c476f5c96e1ee78b54c981134e9.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/43/36/43366135-baec-4251-b1a5-8f1a6a4c5a5d/great_train_robbery.png)
150 years ago today, the first-ever train robbery took place in Indiana, setting off decades of shoot outs and bloodshed
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/2e/ac/2eac9c92-ac2d-4b16-8802-6464077fbc8e/8003179830_b8fb0724e5_z.jpg)
A judge recently ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to let the endangered wolves stay where they are
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/95/7d/957d3686-2372-4da8-b406-7f8aceb37dfc/5473418510_5f9a2d7e29_b.jpg)
Recording fish communication could help scientists learn more about the impact of underwater noise pollution
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/08/2c/082c57bd-19f2-4fb9-a707-b9e2d97aab53/hoppersbedroom8.jpg)
Stay in the childhood home of one of history’s greatest painters
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/78/bc/78bc38f4-a853-489c-b1e2-60b8f2a90523/screen_shot_2016-09-06_at_43739_pm.png)
<i>Breathing Lights</i> will illuminate hundreds of abandoned structures throughout New York
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/97/1e/971eae2a-87d6-4fe8-808a-483041ede604/c03fd55e7108191ba95a1a.jpg)
The 816 Nuclear Plant stands as a reminder of a paranoid past
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/22/90/22906d10-02f8-4577-817b-d1eb449dd383/nobel_portrait.jpg)
The winning trio created the building blocks of nanomachines that have the potential to revolutionize many fields of science and industry
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/56/ff/56ff6e7e-429e-45fc-be70-b0a5b70681ce/botswana_elephants.jpeg)
The southern African nation now supports protection for the animals instead of limited sales of ivory
:focal(408x254:409x255)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/41/3d/413de67a-c2f4-434b-8013-e7643f7135fb/haddo_madonna.jpg)
An art historian working for a BBC television show recognized a painting in a dark corner as the work of the Renaissance master
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/5b/15/5b15625f-4158-4dce-8734-950e1a888efb/ring_2.jpg)
Analysis of four gold rings and some 2,000 other recently uncovered objects points to the exchange of ideas and goods between two ancient peoples
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/a7/fb/a7fb6db3-55ee-4f09-8e2a-85d6de646ad1/123831_web.jpg)
Deep coral reefs reveal their secrets in a study two decades in the making
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/7f/22/7f22b809-4cea-4d3d-a187-93430e1a7dda/istock_19257848_large.jpg)
Winners probed superconductors and superfluids, launching the ongoing hunt for strange phases of matter
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/d1/8e/d18eb01f-7fd7-460a-8417-de0582cca65d/1.jpg)
Uncovered in the Gobi desert, the tracks of the titanosaur show that the beast certainly lived up to its name
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/a6/72/a672c140-dd74-4fd7-838d-36a6a8446b76/toughie.jpg)
Since his discovery in 2005, Toughie the frog has been the face of amphibian extinction
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/d6/33/d6338f53-1ca9-45ed-9fb8-940d2cf52d6a/stone_tools.png)
Excavations at the site Arroyo Seco 2 include stone tools and evidence that humans were hunting giant sloths, giant armadillos and extinct horse species
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/fa/8b/fa8b94a5-d033-4d55-8611-f268effd35f3/swns_matthew_sprite_01.jpg){kind=icon}
A photographer’s good eye captures an elusive phenomenon
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/b1/06/b1062f06-716d-481b-9eeb-3d30b2e10287/plastic_flower.png)
Researchers developed a new polymer that changes shape over time, which could lead to a new class of medical implants
Page 601 of 982
