Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

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The black and slightly orange Bigg’s killer whale was spotted swimming with its mother, Sedna, in the Salish Sea ...

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Ziv Nitzan was on a hike with her family when a rock on the ground caught her eye. But when the 3-year-old girl picked up the ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

A new project called Digital Delacroix is training cutting-edge technology on the French painter's style to unravel the lost ...

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The story of this living monument begins with Charles Weeghman, a classic Chicago striver who could have stepped out of the ...

The January issue featured a story about the village in Sardinia where my paternal grandfather was born (“ Rites of Winter ,” ...