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  • Sat Mar 7

Lightning Strikes on Jupiter Are 100 Times as Powerful as Those on Earth, a New Study Suggests

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This Soldier Died of Yellow Fever During a Hurricane 153 Years Ago. Archaeologists Just Found His Grave

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These Rotund and 'Charmingly Goofy' Birds Are Delighting New Yorkers and Dancing on Social Media. What Is the American Woodcock?

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Doctors Used 'Digital Twins' of Patients' Hearts to Fix Their Irregular Heartbeats

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The Endangered Proboscis Monkey Is Easily Identifiable By One Physical Trait: Its Supersized Schnoz

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In a New Documentary, One of Britain's Most Famous Historians Reframes the American Revolution as a 'Messy Divorce'

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The Gunboat ‘Philadelphia’ Lasted One Day in Battle. It’s Still Telling Us About the Revolution 250 Years Later.

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See the Spectacular Winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 23rd Annual Photography Contest

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See a Colorful Wall of Vintage iMacs and a Re-creation of Steve Jobs' Garage at a New Apple Museum in the Netherlands

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Artemis Astronauts Overcome Toilet Trouble and Officially Head Toward the Moon

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Despite Their Tiny Brains, Bumblebees Have a Surprising Sense of Rhythm, According to a New Study by Neuroscientists

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The World's Longest Outdoor Escalator Just Opened in China. Riding the 3,000-Foot-Long System to the Top Takes More Than 20 Minutes

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Rock Art Suggests the Tasmanian Tiger May Have Survived on Mainland Australia Longer Than Previously Thought

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Meet Domino, a Tiny, Bumpy Fish Making a Splash in Chicago

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The Titanic's Wealthiest Victim Was Carrying a Gold Pocket Watch When He Died. Now, It Could Sell for $500,000 at Auction

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How the Chocolate Bunny Became the Mouthwatering Mascot of Easter Sweets

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Are These the Earliest Known Dice in the World? Native Americans May Have Used Them to Play Games of Chance More Than 12,000 Years Ago

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An Astronaut's Sudden Inability to Speak Prompted the ISS's First Medical Evacuation. Doctors Still Don't Know What Caused the Issue

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Purple Martins Rely on Human 'Landlords' to Provide Nest Boxes Each Spring. Can That Dynamic Last?

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Why Do So Few Mammals Go Through Menopause? And More Questions From Our Readers

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Native Nations Fought in the American Revolution to Protect Their Ancestral Lands. After the War, Settlers Seized Their Territory Anyway

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MoMA Plans a Retrospective for Marcel Duchamp, the Dada Artist Who Was Unimpressed With His Own Masterpieces

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Experts Are Carefully Restoring a 15th-Century Masterpiece by Giovanni Bellini—and You Can Watch Them Work

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This 500-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Claw-Bearing Predator Uncovers the Origins of Spiders, Scorpions and Other Arthropods

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In a First, an Astronomer May Have Witnessed a Comet Stop Its Spin—Then Reverse Its Rotation

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Spectators Flocked to the Artemis 2 Launch to Witness History Being Made. One Awed Viewer Called It 'the Best Thing Ever'

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Sea Stars Can Lose an Arm and Soldier On. What If Robots Could Do the Same?

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This Painting Was Thought to Be a Workshop Copy of a Rembrandt. Now, One Scholar Argues It's the Real Deal

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How Do Snakes 'Stand' Upright Nearly Stick-Straight? New Research Points to How They Pull Off the Gravity-Defying Feat

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This Massive Collection of More Than a Million Tools Tells the Striking History of Jewelry Making in America

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The Spirited Revolutionary Who Led the Fight for Independence in Corsica Also Inspired America’s Colonial Rabble-Rousers

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NASA's Artemis 2 Mission Launches, Sending Humans Toward the Moon for the First Time in More Than 50 Years

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This Secret Passageway May Have Been Part of the Underground Railroad. Now, Preservationists Say It's in Danger

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Humans Might Struggle to Make Babies in Space. Sperm Gets Disoriented in Microgravity, a New Study Suggests

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What Did Ancient Pompeians Burn as Offerings to Their Gods? New Research Reveals the Surprising Answer

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A Truck Driver Spent 20 Years Making This Astonishing Scale Model of Every Single Building in New York City

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Could Python Blood Lead to the Next Generation of Weight-Loss Drugs?

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These Snorkeling Scientists Stumbled Upon a Surprising Trove of Fossils in a Texas Water Cave

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Is This 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic the First Known Image of a Woman Fighting Wild Beasts in an Ancient Roman Arena?

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To Finance Their Lifestyle, a Young French Couple Went to Cambodia to Steal Antiquities. They Did Almost Everything Wrong

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Six Awe‑Inspiring Ways to Celebrate America’s Space Legacy at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

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This C-3PO Head From 'The Empire Strikes Back' Just Sold for More Than $1 Million at Auction

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The 'Cicada' Variant of Covid-19 Is Spreading in the United States. Here's What You Need to Know

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Art Thieves Steal Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Worth More Than $10 Million, Fleeing the Scene in Just Three Minutes

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When Did the Earth's Crust Start to Shift? Scientists Uncover Evidence of Plate Tectonics Happening 3.48 Billion Years Ago

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Watch Unprecedented Footage of Sperm Whales Helping a Newborn Calf Take Its First Breaths

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Charles Dickens Searched the Streets of London and Found Inspiration for His Evocative Fiction

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With ‘Doonesbury,’ Garry Trudeau Found a Way to Inform and Entertain a Generation of Newspaper Readers, One Panel at a Time

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Abigail Adams Asked Her Husband to 'Remember the Ladies' as He Drafted America's Laws. Here's What She Really Meant

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Cascade Red Foxes Are Notoriously Reclusive. So How Did This Photographer Capture These Stunning Images of the Endangered Species?

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Entries updated Apr 6, 2026 08:25:32 PM PDT

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