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The recent cold spell is getting a lot of attention, but we should all remember that it could be worse
National Zoo's Bonnie is the first ever case of a primate imitating a sound from another species without training
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Recipes offer an intimate glimpse into the life of Charles Darwin and his family
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Next month we celebrate an odd double anniversary—the 200th anniversaries of the births of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin
Over the inaugural weekend, Smithsonian curators were among the crowds searching for significant artifacts that will later mark the historical moment
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Mountain gorillas are rare and endangered, and they have the misfortune to live in a part of the world wracked by human violence
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Two of the world’s greatest modern thinkers are much celebrated, but what did they know of one another?
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Bo, the Obama’s First Pooch, has a legacy to live up to in Laddie Boy, the family pet of President Harding
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Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin and nearly outscooped Darwin’s The Origin of Species
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Last month, then president-elect Obama devoted one of his weekly addresses to science
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Now its a pageant, but the post inauguration meal used to be a pretty mild affair
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Sure, it’s zero degrees outside. But you can handle it
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