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Air Pollution Can Cause Some Ants to Turn on One Another—and Neglect Their Young, New Research Suggests

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Is This Copy of a Long-Lost Northern Renaissance Portrait Actually an Original Albrecht Dürer?

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Seals Are Seemingly Vanishing Off the Dutch Coast. These Scientists Are Trying to Get to the Bottom of the Mysterious Disappearances

Afghanistan Was a Crossroad of the Ancient World, Where Hellenistic Culture Blended With Buddhist Influences

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator Is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

Historians Thought This Rare Renaissance Portrait by One of the First Famous Female Artists Was Lost to History—Until It Surfaced in North Carolina

From Giant Art to Amazing Specimens, See These 20 New and Revitalized Smithsonian Shows in 2026

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