How the rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age Americans’ privacy
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This innovative device allows South American paleontologists to share fossils with the world
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Ramses II’s long-lost sarcophagus has finally been identified
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Coywolves are prospering in Eastern North America
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam.
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A brief history of the United States’ accents and dialects
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Why restoring a Banksy mural in Venice is so controversial
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Early anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica and the Aztecs
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Where did the term blue moon come from, and how rare is the ‘super blue moon’ later this month?
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2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
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How an English exile ended up at the court of Genghis Khan's grandson
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"Abraham Lincoln" street in Nogales, Sonora
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The heat-resistant organism in antler coral may help it adapt as ocean temperatures increase
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Seven amazing accomplishments the James Webb Telescope achieved in its first year
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The controversial gay priest who brought vigilante justice to San Francisco's streets
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The misunderstood Roman empress who willed her way to the top
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The real reasons you shouldn’t clone your dog
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering.
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The history of how US school buses became yellow
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Scientists develop new birth control for female cats—no surgery necessary
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Hurtigruten Norway's new cruise ship design includes batteries and retractable sails equipped with solar panels
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Octopuses may have vivid nightmares, video suggests
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Recently discovered drawings by Gustave Eiffel of the Statue of Liberty hint at last minute change
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The race to save Ukraine’s sacred art
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Hollywood loved Sammy Davis Jr. until he dated a white movie star
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The Amazon Rainforest now emits more greenhouse gases than it absorbs
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Satellite imagery shows northern California kelp forests have collapsed
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How the sun illuminates Spanish missions on the winter solstice
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Animals are using Utah’s largest wildlife overpass earlier than expected
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Decoding the mathematical secrets of plants’ stunning leaf patterns
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The world's first happiness museum opens in Denmark – the Nordic country is consistently ranked among the planet's happiest
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Why footbinding persisted in China for a millennium
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The inside story of the 25-year, $8 million heist of maps, books, and artwork from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library
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The true story of Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America
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Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin
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Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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A brief history of the crock pot
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Recently discovered neutron star is almost too massive to exist
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Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland
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The snakes that ate Florida
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The rise of ‘zero-waste’ grocery stores
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Poetry matters: In baseball, no poet has yet to do the game justice
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The patents behind pasta shapes
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