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Meet the Brazilian Velvet Ant, a Rare ‘Ultra-Black’ Wasp That’s So Dark It Absorbs Almost All Visible Light
While the distinctive coloration is thought to be a warning to predators, it also has intriguing implications for designing ...
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See the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in Japan
The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new ...
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Who Was Frances Perkins? Meet the Trailblazing Workers’ Rights Advocate Whose Homestead Just Became a National Monument
The country’s newest national monument honors Frances Perkins, America’s first female cabinet secretary and a champion of ...
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Ancient Texts Reveal How Mesopotamians Felt Emotions—From Happiness in the Liver to Anger in the Feet
Researchers found that ancient Mesopotamians associated body parts with emotions, just as we do—but they discovered some ...
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Archaeologists Say This Tiny Amulet Is the Oldest Evidence of Christianity Found North of the Alps
Discovered in central Germany, the 1,800-year-old silver artifact held a tiny scroll, which researchers have now deciphered using high-resolution scans ...
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After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook
A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as ...
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‘A Christmas Carol’ Marvelously Captured the Holiday’s Victorian Spirit and Inspired New Traditions for Centuries to Come
Published on this day in 1843, at a time when Christmas was undergoing great transformation, Charles Dickens' novel centered ...
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The National Film Registry Adds 25 New Movies, Including ‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’
The Library of Congress has just added 25 new movies to the National Film Registry —including cult classics like Dirty ...
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NASA’s Starliner Astronauts Face Another Delay in Their Return Home, Drawing Out Their Unexpectedly Long Mission
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were supposed to stay at the ISS for a little over a week. It's now been more than six months ...
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Officials Ward Off 20,000 Crows With Flares and Lasers in Upstate New York, an Annual Battle Waged in Cities Nationwide
Massive roosts of crows in Rochester leave streets covered in feces, but some "corvid fanatics" aren't pleased about certain ...
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An Alabama Woman Got a Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant. Three Weeks Later, She Has ‘Never Felt Better’
On November 25, 53-year-old Towana Looney became just the third living person to receive a pig kidney in an experimental ...
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Ancient Rome
A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the Eternal City as the artistic and cultural capital of 18th-century Europe Helen Dudar Page 24 of 24 ...