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Image captured from the 1948 Republican National Convention.

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Watch Historic Footage of Seven Consequential (and Cringeworthy) Convention Moments

These tidbits of political theater past must be seen to be believed

A Delta Aquarid meteor streaks across the sky.

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Keep Your Eyes to the Sky for the Delta Aquarid Meteors This Month

The late-July meteor shower heralds the popular Perseids

This musical score, in Jane Austen's handwriting, is one of nearly 600 Austen family musical treasures available in an online archive.

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Jane Austen’s Music Collection Is Now Online

Play piano like a Darcy with nearly 600 Austen-approved tunes

Eleven Persian qanats are being preserved by Unesco.

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Unesco Names New World Heritage Sites

Rock art, irrigation and education add to the organization's growing list of sites worthy of protection

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Five Things to Know About the New GMO Labeling Bill

Congress just passed a bill requiring GMO labeling, but it's not as straightforward as you might think

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Browse Though the Amazon's 12,000 Tree Species in This New Master List

Gotta count 'em all

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Anyone Can Contribute to This Giant Poem...if You Can Find This Typewriter

A roving typewriter tries to capture New York's subconscious

The Mertz Library hosts one of the world's largest collections of material about plants.

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Go Inside New York’s Nearly Secret Botanical Library

It’s a gardener’s fragrant fantasy

An up close view of coral

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Watch Corals in Action With New Underwater Microscope

The Benthic Underwater Microscope opens up a whole new age of ocean exploration

Researchers show a mouse an image of cat while recording neuron activity in its visual cortex

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Mice Watching "Touch of Evil" Teach Scientists About the Mind's Eye

By tracking mice neurons, scientists hope to understand consciousness

Was this 1660 self-portrait painted with the help of high-tech optics?

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Did Rembrandt Have Help With His Most Famous Paintings?

A new study suggests the old master also knew his optics

An artist's illustration of the Tiangong-1 space lab in orbit.

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No, China's Tiangong-1 Will Not "Rain Molten Metal Down Onto Earth"

It's not spiraling out of control, and even if it was, it wouldn't enter the atmosphere until 2017

Carla Hayden will be the nation's first woman and first African-American to serve as Librarian of Congress.

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Meet Your New Librarian of Congress

Carla Hayden will make history as the first African-American in the role—and the first woman

Researcher Ricardo Godoy conducts an experiment with a member of the Tsimane

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Researchers Travel to the Amazon to Find Out if Musical Taste is Hardwired

Members of the Tsimane tribe showed no preference between consonant and dissonate tones, meaning Western music is probably not biologically based

The Young Orphan, c. 1884

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Meet William Merritt Chase, the American Master Coming Back into Fashion

At the turn of the century, Chase was one of the most well-known painters and teachers in the United States. A new exhibit revisits his revolutionary skill

The Girl Scouts' newest badges celebrate art in the outdoors.

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The Girl Scouts' Newest Badges Bring Art Outside

Scouts designed and voted on the new badges

Larry, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

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10 Downing Street’s “Chief Mouser” Is Keeping His Job Despite Brexit

Larry the Cat will outlast David Cameron at the Prime Minister’s residence

W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

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The Revolutionary Infographics of W.E.B. Du Bois And Booker T. Washington

Data visualizations shed light on the living conditions of black people decades after the end of slavery

Awaroa Beach

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New Zealanders Just Crowdfunded a New Addition to this National Park

Over 40,000 people donated to buy Awaroa Beach and gift the site to Abel Tasman National Park

This spectacular image of the Orion Nebula star-formation region was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.

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Breathtaking New Images Capture Failed Stars and Planet-Sized Objects Inside the Orion Nebula

It’s the deepest look into the nebula ever seen before

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