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Rijksmuseum and chill.

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Explore the Netherlands’ Most Iconic Museum

The Rijksmuseum is now the best-represented institution in the Google Cultural Institute

The "Persian Ceiling" installation at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2013

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Sculptor's New Show is a Riot of Color

Dale Chihuly sets out to "overwhelm with light and color" in 'Persian Ceiling'

Ski mountaineering legend Kit DesLauriers ascends Mt. Isto, the new highest peak in the Brooks Range

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After 60 Years, An Expedition Determines Highest Peaks in U.S. Arctic

Glaciologist Matt Nolan and ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers tested a new mapping system to end uncertainty about the highest mountain in the Brooks Range

The site where the historic Stonewall Inn was located will now be the United States' first National Monument to gay rights.

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President Obama Just Created the First National Monument to Gay Rights

The Stonewall National Monument tells the story of LGBTQ struggles in the United States

Ask Smithsonian 2017

What's the Difference Between England, Britain and the U.K.?

Listen up, would-be Anglophiles: Here's how never to mess up your realms, kingdoms and empires again

The lighthouse on Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas

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A Lucky Artist Will Be Marooned on a Deserted Island

An artist-in-residence program invites applicants to consider spending a month alone in paradise

The library's current location isn't where Hamilton and Burr read books, but the membership library still owns books that they checked out.

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This Library Has Books Checked Out by Hamilton and Burr

The New York Society Library was wide enough for both men

Hemingway made this airy estate his Cuban home away from home—and wrote some of his most famous novels here.

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As U.S.-Cuba Relations Warm, This Long-Dead Author Benefits

A new conservation facility is on its way to Hemingway’s home near Havana

Mongolia Adopts Address System That Uses Three-Word Names

What3words' geo-coding system divides the Earth's surface into 57 trillion squares, and assigns each a unique, memorable string of names

Just what lies beyond the next valley, canyon, crater, or hill is NASA's perpetual question.

Art Meets Science

Check Out NASA's Retro Mars Recruitment Posters

Farmers, teachers, surveyors and engineers will all be needed in the envisaged Mars settlement

A concept design for a space elevator.

New Research

A New Hitch in the Plan for Building a Space Elevator

Carbon nanotubes may not be as strong as scientists once thought

The Amazon Basin just got a little bit safer.

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New Agreement Will Help Protect the Amazon Basin

Earth's largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies

An illustration of the Tate Modern's new Switch House expansion.

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The Expanded Tate Modern Opens Its Doors Friday

The museum is being called the UK’s most important new cultural building since the British Library

Tolkien relied on maps to write his books—and cared a lot about how his fans saw Middle-earth.

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One Day Only: A Chance to View One Map to Rule Them All

A rare Tolkien-annotated map goes on display June 23

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This New York Project Wants You to Write on the Walls

Writing On It All gives voice—and a pen—to one and all

Preah Khan of Kompong Svay as seen by Lidar

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Laser Scans Reveal Massive Khmer Cities Hidden in the Cambodian Jungle

Using Lidar technology, researchers are discovering the extent of the medieval Khmer empire

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One of the World's Most Colorful Places Is in Taiwan

Rainbow Family Village shows there's nothing a man with a paintbrush can't do

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A Brief History of Bog Butter

Turf cutters in Ireland regularly find chunks of butter deep in the nation's peat bogs. What is the stuff doing there?

Look up—there's more to the Grand Canyon than geology.

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Grand Canyon Turns Down Its Lights to Become a Dark Sky Park

Star gazers, rejoice—the skies above the Grand Canyon will never lose their sparkle

Scene from All is Lost, a 1923 film identified at the Library of Congress's Mostly Lost Film Festival

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The Library of Congress Needs Your Help to Identify These Silent Movies

For the fifth year, the "Mostly Lost" film festival calls on its audience to help identify obscure details in movie-making history

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