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Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

Among the museum’s artifacts, which were hidden during the long closure, are a 5,400-year-old mummy and remnants from the ...

Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...

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While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...

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An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

See airplanes of all sizes, shapes and colors from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...