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Pisan Artist Resurrects the Lost Art of Fresco

The Large Magellanic Cloud, NASA

Loud and Clear Department: Intergalactic Telegrams

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Out of Time: Chinese Films Mingle Past and Present

Condors can soar 150 miles in a day on their giant wings. The birds often fly for hours at a time with hardly a flap of their wings

Condors in a Coal Mine

California’s lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans

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Science to Religion: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

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Scientists Find Another Species of Forest Robin

Peacock flounder (Bothus lunatus) near Coki Beach, St. Thomas, USVI

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

The waters around the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (yellow and blueback fusiliers) hold some of the world's most pristine coral reefs

Our Imperiled Oceans: Victory at Sea

The world’s largest protected area, established this year in the remote Pacific, points the way to restoring marine ecosystems

1957: A half century ago, tourists in Key West routinely caught goliath grouper (the big fish with the big mouths) and large sharks (on the dock).

Our Imperiled Oceans: Seeing Is Believing

Photographs and other historical records testify to the former abundance of the sea

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The Bugs Who Flew Too Much

This invasion would have driven even Alfred Hitchcock psycho

Hawaii-based journalist Christopher Pala has traveled the world covering various topics and is also the author of, The Oddest Place on Earth: Rediscovering the North Pole

Christopher Pala on “Victory at Sea”

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Newcomers

Two new key additions to our staff

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Letters

Readers Respond to the July Issue

"Only one photo from the 12 I took of her was good, because it was the only one where the iguanas raised their heads as if they were posing," Iturbide says of the picture Nuestra Senora de las Iguanas, 1979

Day of the Iguanas

On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life

"Science on a Sphere" illustrates satellite data on multiple aspects of the ocean.

From the Castle

Deep Science

A canoe Doug Chilton and other Tlingit artisans crafted using techniques mastered by their Alaskan ancestors

Spirit of the Sea

Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture’s oceangoing past

Nancy Knowlton

Nancy Knowlton

The renowned coral reef biologist leads Smithsonian’s effort to foster a greater public understanding of the world’s oceans

Sea spiders (pycnogonids) were found on the slope and base habitats of Davidson Seamount, California.

Most Likely To

A quick guide to the standouts of the National Museum of Natural History’s “Ocean Hall Class of 2008”

Puerto Rican government created posters to promote pro-democracy films

What’s Up

Crown from the Tillya Tepe, Tomb VI, 1st century BC - 1st century AD. Crown is gold and imitation turquoise

Lost & Found

Ancient gold artifacts from Afghanistan, hidden for more than a decade, dazzle in a new exhibition

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