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Bike-Powered Helicopter Smashes World Record, Flies for Almost a Minute

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Saudis to Send Women to London Olympics After All

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Prepare to Go Underground

Upside down skyscrapers. Vacuum tubes whisking away trash. Welcome to the future of cities as they begin exploring the next urban frontier

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Surgery, Security and Sales: The Future of Closed-Circuit Television

Just as people were experimenting with the uses of broadcast TV in the 1930s, so too were they envisioning ways to utilize closed-circuit TV in the 1950s

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which will be unfolded at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Events June 26-28: Duke Kahanamoku, Bring Back the Funk, and the Folklife Festival

This week, learn about past Olympians, get funky with George Clinton and other music legends, and kick off this summer's Folklife Festival

Cave art evolved in Europe 40,000 years ago. Archaeologists reasoned the art was a sign that humans could use symbols to represent their world and themselves.

When Did the Human Mind Evolve to What It is Today?

Archaeologists are finding signs of surprisingly sophisticated behavior in the ancient fossil record

The B.A.A. team in the stadium in Athens.

The Men Behind the First Olympic Team

Mocked by their peers and kicked out of Harvard, the pioneering athletes were ahead of their time... and their competition in Athens

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How Hadrosaurs Chewed

Edmontosaurus has often been called the "cow of the Cretaceous", but did this dinosaur chew like a mammal?

The prized Fliers' and Explorers' Globe at the American Geographical Society

The Greatest Globe on Earth

Now kept at the American Geographical Society in New York, the globe is precious not for its age or beauty, but for the explorers who signed it

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The Indelible Mister Rogers

Besides how to be a good neighbor, Mr. Rogers taught us other lessons, especially about the impact of a comforting change of clothes

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The Paradox of the Nutcracker Man

Researchers have assumed Paranthropus boisei used its giant teeth to crack open nuts, but conflicting evidence suggests the hominid ate more like a cow

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The Loneliest Shop in the World

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Sea Level Rising Three Times Faster Than Average on Northeast US Coast

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The Last of His Kind, Tortoise Lonesome George Dies, Leaving No Offspring

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What Give Cheetahs The Edge In a Race With Greyhounds

If you could put a wild cheetah up against a greyhound in a race, the cheetah would win, no problem. But why?

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Scientists Discover That Mars is Full of Water

Looking closely at a pair of meteorites originating from Mars, researchers now believe the planet likely holds vast reservoirs of water deep underground

Lieutenant Elle Helmer, US Marine Corps, at the Vietnam War Memorial

Documenting Sexual Assault in The Invisible War

A new documentary gives voice to victims in the military and may be a key force behind a new initiative to put an end to the violence

A Midwest field circa 1936

70 Percent of Illinois Is In A Drought (And It’s Better Off Than Indiana)

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This Beautiful Window Art Also Saves Birds’ Lives

Seven female swimmers at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., 1920

How Bathing Suits Went From Two-pieces to Long Gowns and Back

Bikinis may have been illegal in 1900, but they were all the rage in ancient Rome

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