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| Oct 2, 2026 | Arkansas gem hunter finds a diamond he claims could be worth $1 million | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LAURA TURBAY
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Jack Pearadin is the first to admit that his diamond-hunting hobby hasn’t paid off, despite sifting rocks for more than a dozen years.
But earlier this year... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Lonnie Bunch to retire from Smithsonian leadership following clash with Trump administration | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MEG KINNARD and GARY FIELDS, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution following a tumultuous year in which President Do... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | As Native American boarding schools project ends, survivors describe feeling honored and restored | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By NANCY MARIE SPEARS/The Imprint
Hundreds of Indigenous people have testified. They’ve sobbed, cursed and laughed in spite of it all. Many told stories about their time in boarding schools that th... |
| May 13, 2026 | Ancient teeth hint at canoodling between early human relatives | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN
NEW YORK (AP) — An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago that have left a la... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | This California spot leads list of worst tourist attractions in the world | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
What are the worst tourist traps in the world? What attractions live up to the hype?
Stasher, a company that hooks travelers up with temporary luggage storage, weighs in with its blog post, “World’... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | First new fossils in more than 100 years discovered at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first discovery at the monument in more than 100 years, according to the National Park Service... |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Trump vows to target ‘woke’ museums with same playbook used on Columbia, Harvard | President Donald Trump said he has ordered his lawyers to “go through” what he calls “woke” content at Smithsonian museums and possibly others.
He ordered them to “start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universiti... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | На астероиде Бенну внезапно обнаружили следы воды, как на Земле | Исследуя образцы с астероида Бенну, ученые обнаружили в солевых растворах минералы с необычными соединениями, такие как карбонат натрия и фосфор, а также почти полное отсутствие бора, что говорит о значительных отличиях от земных условий. Р... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Science | Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world | Some if not all of the delicate salts found at Bennu — similar to what’s in the dry lakebeds of California’s Mojave Desert and Africa’s Sahara — would be stripped away if present in falling meteorites.
“This discovery was only possible by a... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Учёные предложили сделать на Луне банк земных биоматериалов | Исследователи Смитсоновского национального зоопарка, Смитсоновского национального музея естественной истории и Института биологии охраны природы (NZCBI) представили проект по созданию на Луне криогенного банка земных биоматериалов. Подходящ... |
| May 18, 2024 | Магия музеев или что могут технологии | Привет! На Хабре рассказывают про технологии, поэтому я выбрала подходящую и красивую тему. В этом посте рассказ пойдет об онлайн-музеях — какие из них стоит посмотреть, где искать ссылки, как и почему музеи оцифровывают коллекции.
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| Apr 2, 2024 | "Cicada-geddon" insect invasion will be biggest bug emergence in centuries | Chicago advised to prepare for billions of cicadas this spring
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Trillions of evolution's bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | The 177-year history behind Cartier, the iconic jewelry brand that's a favorite of the royals and worth $12 billion | Retail The 177-year history behind Cartier, the iconic jewelry brand that's a favorite of the royals and worth $12 billion
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| Feb 22, 2024 | D.C. weekend events: Mother Tongue Film Festival, Fashion Week and more | This weekend in D.C., check out the Smithsonian's ninth annual Mother Tongue Film Festival, a D.C. Fashion Week runway show and more. 1. 🎞️ Must-watch cultural films
The Smithsonian's ninth annual Mother Tongue Film Festival is here.
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| Nov 14, 2023 | How old is the Earth? | As the proto-Earth grew, heavier elements within it began to sink toward the center, forming the core, and lighter elements rose to the surface. This process, called differentiation, likely took place over tens of millions of years.
During ... |
| Aug 3, 2023 | World's oldest known swimming jellyfish species found in "exceptional" fossils buried within Canada mountains | The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer more than scenic views: The mountains have been hiding fossils of an ancient jellyfish species.
Researchers analyzed 182 fossils that were found in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale within Canada's Yoho an... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Julie Marshall: Reconnect to nature’s Earth and get this party started, Earth Day 2023 | By Earth (with typing assistance by Julie Marshall)
As the host planet for confirmed life in the galaxy, I wanted to offer some thoughts on Earth Day, April 22, 2023. I think I’m likely due for an opinion piece in the Daily Camera, too.
I w... |
| Aug 23, 2022 | How machine learning and automation can solve biomanufacturing scale-up challenges | Biomanufacturing has produced important materials, ingredients, therapeutics, and more for decades, yet it is still far from a mature industry. Given life’s 3.5 billion years of experimentation on Earth, it takes a lot of effort and resourc... |
| Jan 31, 2022 | artnet : Sotheby's Is Selling an Immense Black Diamond It Claims Came From Outer Space | Auctions Sotheby's Is Selling an Immense Black Diamond It Claims Came From Outer Space
Some experts question the extraterrestrial origins of carbonaro diamonds.
Caroline Goldstein, January 31, 2022 The Enigma, a 555.5-carat Black Diamond. C... |
| Jan 5, 2022 | artnet : A Major Pandemic Spike Is Forcing Museums to Close—Again. But This Time, It's Because Staffers Are Out Sick | Museums A Major Pandemic Spike Is Forcing Museums to Close-Again. But This Time, It's Because Staffers Are Out Sick
Several Smithsonian museums and the Wadsworth Atheneum are among institutions that have had to close temporarily.
Sarah Casc... |
| May 10, 2021 | 15 minutes a day can help prevent student learning loss | (BPT) - Distance learning, hybrid models, social-distanced in-person — school has looked very different over the last year, and this interrupted learning has understandably impacted kids. While some children thrived learning at home, many o... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Scarcity Gives Bitcoin Value, but Not the Way You Think | Among Bitcoin’s principal tenets is the idea that its baked-in scarcity makes it valuable. Bitcoin’s algorithmically determined rate of increase certainly makes it scarce when demand for the bitcoin cryptocurrency is rising, though not so m... |
| Oct 31, 2020 | 20+ виртуальных туров по музеям и достопримечательностям. Лувр, Диснейленд, Мачу-Пикчу | Александра Кукуть 31 октября 2020, 10:01 20+ виртуальных туров по музеям и достопримечательностям. Лувр, Диснейленд, Мачу-Пикчу
Business Insider сделал подборку бесплатных виртуальных туров по 23 популярным туристическим объектам со всего м... |
| Mar 30, 2020 | Working from home? Here are 37 spring break staycation ideas for your kids | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200304_Larry_Bill_Coronavirus.mp4
Trips cancelled. Bags unpacked. Kids stuck inside. Yup, it’s spring break coronavirus style. Not only are many parents navigating the new n... |
| Mar 28, 2020 | 10 научных и технологических музеев, которые можно посетить онлайн | Александра Кукуть 28 марта 2020, 15:05 10 научных и технологических музеев, которые можно посетить онлайн
Подборка виртуальных туров по музеям в разных странах от Interesting Engineering.
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| Mar 15, 2020 | Can’t Travel? 55 Things People Aged 55+ Can Do When They’re Practicing Social Distancing | nullGetty |
| Nov 22, 2019 | Виртуализируй это: чем мы займёмся в виртуальной реальности | «Шлемы виртуальной реальности появятся в каждом доме», — пророчат одни. «Отрасль сдохнет, и никому не нужны эти технологии», — говорят другие. Кто всё-таки прав?
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| Nov 6, 2017 | Meet the latest companies out of NYU Tandon’s AI incubator | Our phones are increasingly capable of doing amazing things, from controlling the appliances in our homes to bringing a museum’s animal specimens to life. A crop of startups out of NYU Tandon’s artificial-intelligence incubator seek to add ... |
| 10 museus online para visitar durante a quarentena do COVID-19 | A quarentena que estamos vivendo, por conta do coronavírus, está nos obrigando a adaptar alguns hábitos externos que tínhamos, como viajar e encontrar os amigos, para atividades dentro de casa. Para ajudar a lidar um pouco com o tédio duran... |