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Walead Beshty at the Hirshhorn—Abstract Art or Photography?

Beshty tries to put together a conversation

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Dinosaurs Weally Wock

Girls, Barbies, Harlem, 1970.

Harlem Transformed: the Photos of Camilo José Vergara

For decades, the photographer has documented the physical and cultural changes in Harlem and other American urban communities

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From the Editor: Positive Thinking

Funny-looking cells and an air of expectation

John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens) is searching for one of the biological keys to human behavior.

Brain Cells for Socializing

Does an obscure nerve cell help explain what gorillas, elephants, whales—and people—have in common?

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Flight of the hummingbird, termite cloning and the rise of the octopus

The Wright brothers inaugurated the aerial age with the world's first successful flights of a powered heavier-than-air flying machine.

Bringing the Wright Flyer to Life

In a movie first, curators and filmmakers collaborated to animate artifacts for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

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