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Van Gogh Painted Some of His Most Breathtaking Works During His Two Years in the South of France
Impressionist's creative output between 1888 and 1890, which was one of the most productive periods of his career ...
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A Runaway Capybara Is Evading Capture and ‘Living Her Best Life’ in England
The “beloved” rodent named Cinnamon was spotted this week with help from drones. She has been wandering and eating grass ...
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Europeans Were Using Cocaine in the 17th Century—Hundreds of Years Earlier Than Historians Thought
Scientists identified traces of the drug in the brain tissue of two individuals buried in the crypt of a hospital in Milan ...
Smithsonian Magazine5h
Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
Smithsonian Magazine5h
In a Landmark Study, Scientists Discover Just How Much Earth’s Temperature Has Changed Over Nearly 500 Million Years
Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...
Smithsonian Magazine6h
How the Constitution Was Drafted With Hope and Compromise
It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution. This short document, drafted in 1787 in a hot and stuffy ...
Smithsonian Magazine11h
The Odd Arctic Military Projects Spawned by the Cold War
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...
Smithsonian Magazine8h
Fetching Fossils and Unwrapping Mannequins: Here’s What Happens When a Museum Exhibition Closes
In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...
Smithsonian Magazine8h
Scientists Play Matchmaker for Beloved Sea Snails in the Florida Keys
To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters ...
Smithsonian Magazine13h
This Defeated Presidential Candidate, Once the ‘Best-Known Man in America,’ Died in a Sanatorium Less Than a Month After Losing the Election
Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...
Smithsonian Magazine11h
How Century-Old Paintings Reveal the Indigenous Roots and Natural History of New England Landscapes
His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...
Smithsonian Magazine13h
Creativity and Co-Creation Bring Local Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander Histories to the Classroom
Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories ...