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When Will There Be Herds of Mammoths?

With the announcement that the woolly mammoth genome has been sequenced, it seems natural to ask when we will finally see live mammoths

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A Chemistry Lesson at the American History Museum

Spark!Lab at the National Museum of American History, which reopens on Friday after extensive renovations

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There’s Nothing Like a Spark!Lab to Ignite the Imagination

Spark!Lab, a new hands-on activity center, joins the National Museum of American History

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Get to Sleep Before You Lose Your Senses and Your Money!

If you don’t get back to sleep, you risk forgetting what you learned, impairing your ability to learn, and preventing yourself from extracting concepts

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How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociprator?

Probabilistic seismic hazard map

California Shaking

Amazing animations from the USGS of a magnitude 7.8 scenario earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in southern California

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Sabertooth Cat: More Like a Lion or a House Cat?

It is difficult to figure out the behaviors of an animal that lived thousands—or millions—of years ago when all you have are its fossilized bones

In a Kickstarter campaign, 5,300 backers raised $300,000 to help the Smithsonian conserve the Ruby Slippers worn by actress Judy Garland in the popular 1939 film.

The Ruby Slippers Return to the Museum of American History

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“Cliff” the Triceratops Finds a Good Home

The National Archives at Kew

Rewriting History in Great Britain

Recently uncovered documents in the British archives reveal dark secrets from World War II. One problem: they are forgeries

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Long Before Pepto-Bismol — Dinosaur Poop, Revisited

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And the Next Species Predicted to Be Lost to Climate Change is…

…the antilopine wallaroo, a type of kangaroo that lives in wet, tropical areas of Australia

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What’s Up at the Smithsonian This Week, 11/17-22

The large eyes of a red dragonfly.

Bugs, Brains and Trivia

No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition

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Insect Trivia

Test your insect knowledge by answering these trivia questions

Sunrise over South Texas, by Hugh Powell. That’s right - a sunrise. In every ending there’s a new dawn, after all. See you at Food and Think)

Gisting Off Into the Sunset

Picture of the Week - Deep-sea Octopi

Megeleledone setebos (bottom left), an octopus species endemic to the Southern Ocean, surrounded by related octopus species that evolved in the deep-sea

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Make Campaign History, Share McCain/Obama Election Night Memories and Stories Here

Aerosteon

A Kerfuffle Revisited, and an Update on Tracks

In 2006, it was discovered that the hippocampus had been stolen from its case and replaced with a fake. This counterfeit is now on display at the Usak museum.

Chasing the Lydian Hoard

Author Sharon Waxman digs into the tangle over looted artifacts between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Turkish government

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