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December 2024

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What excavations in Bermuda are revealing about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it shaped the New World

The untold story of Matilda Gage, the freethinker who inspired her son-in-law L. Frank Baum’s classic novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"

Glass frogs use translucence to evade predators. So why are researchers trying to find as many as they can?

When a Japanese family was sent to an internment camp in 1942, one neighbor quietly risked everything to look after their farm—and their future

Photographs by Kevin Miyazaki

For the young, tiny nation, varied landscapes and rich history bring endless culinary inspiration

Your feedback on a multitalented fruit detective, a Jewish actor's journey and a long-overlooked Native American massacre

Cue the panda cam: The Zoo’s two newest residents, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will make their debut in January

How Fallingwater gave Frank Lloyd Wright’s career a second wind

How the dubious tradition of song-sharking led to a strangely beautiful repository of folk art

Arthur Allen changed science forever with one simple idea: Stop killing rare birds

A worldwide search party is using 21st-century tools to uncover long-unseen species, one of which hadn't been found since the 19th century

At the oldest public art museum in the United States, miniatures, glassware and other intricately created works transport visitors around the world

The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the penicillin girls

The thorny origins of a yuletide canoodling tradition

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