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Airmail is 150 Years Old Today

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Five Ways to Eat Tomatoes

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Seven Threatened Cats You May Not Know

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"Chinasaurs" Invade Maryland

The traveling exhibit, "Chinasaurs: Dinosaur Dynasty," is filled with the skeletons of dinosaurs that roamed China millions of years ago

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Smithsonian Events for the Week of August 17-22: Quilting, Conservation Clinics and Awesome Art

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Woodstock: Celebrating 40 Years of Peace and Music

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Weekend Events: Portraits Come Alive, Family Celebrations and a Scavenger Hunt!

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Woodstock—How to Feed 400,000 Hungry Hippies

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Dinosaur Sighting: Tyrannosaurus Guards Google

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Picture of the Week—Project Pebble

The University of Cambridge Department of Engineering hosted a photography contest earlier this year, and the winners have just been announced

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Sheep, Chicks and Geese Scurry at the County Fair

As photographer Dan Nelken has catalogued, the county fair is the place for family farms to showcase their prized livestock

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Spitzer Telescope Spots Cosmic Destruction

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An Honor and a Party for Stephen Hawking

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The Joys of Country Fair Food

What are your favorite fair foods? We'll share our memories if you'll share yours

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Caption Writing Contest #5 – The Truth Behind the Mannequin Amputation

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Walking With Dinosaurs to Fight Cancer

"Now it's off to the races," botanist Dave Erickson says of a project to barcode 250 species of plant life on Plummers Island.

Cracking the DNA Code

On a small island near Washington, D.C., Smithsonian researchers have found a genetic code that could revolutionize botany

The 190-mile-long Cahaba River is home to many rare species, some of which were thought to be extinct.  The showy Cahaba lily (at Halfmile Shoals) thrives in clean, clear, rapidly flowing water.

The Cahaba: A River of Riches

An unsung Alabama waterway is one of the most biologically diverse places in the nation, home to rare flora and fauna

At an 18th-century auction in Amsterdam, Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter sold for about one-third the amount that its owner spent to obtain a then rare Conus gloriamaris shell.

Mad About Seashells

Collectors have long prized mollusks for their beautiful exteriors, but for scientists, it’s what inside that matters

Galileo was the first to discover the moons of Jupiter.

Galileo's Revolutionary Vision Helped Usher In Modern Astronomy

The Italian scientist turned his telescope toward the stars and changed our view of the universe

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