This National Virginia Day, learn how Smithsonian scientists are using historic collections and current conservation practices to bring back declining populations of grassland birds Emma Saaty ...

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Una Pizza Napoletana on the Lower East Side has claimed the top spot in an annual ranking of pizzerias around the globe ...

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Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

Scientists have created "a form of information immortality" meant to instruct future species on how to recreate humans. But ...

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Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Impressionist's creative output between 1888 and 1890, which was one of the most productive periods of his career ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...