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Frogs on the EDGE

The Trevi Fountain’s waters turn red.

He Strikes Again

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Who Wants to Fight?

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Stephen Scores! (Well, Sorta)

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Snapshot: Adelaide, South Australia

Down Under’s unofficial capital of food and drink

Martin Rundkvist

500-Year-Old Sword Gets a Facelift

Maverick Wave Theory

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On the Job

A lobsterman in Maine talks about the lure of working on the water

Great Wave off Kanagawa

At Home in Hokusai’s Floating World

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Put a Tiger in Your Pocket

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Put a Tiger in Your Pocket

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, insured for one million dollars. Surrounded by 16 white pear-shaped and cushion-cut diamonds and hanging from a chain with 45 diamonds, the rare gem attracts 6 million visitors a year to the Natural History Museum.

Glow-in-the-Dark Jewels

How the Hope Diamond’s mysterious phosphorescence led to “fingerprinting” blue diamonds

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Colbert’s Portrait—Should the Smithsonian Take It or Leave It?

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Everest Pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary Dies

Take a look back at the 50th anniversary of his ascent of Mount Everest

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The Big Red Hope

“Tinkerbell” in Southern Skies

Despite $100 Oil, U.S. Gas Still a Bargain

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Tech-Spun Remedy

Hunter Hoffman, director of the University of Washington’s Virtual Reality Research Center, has a new take on how to deal with pain

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UPDATE: State of Emergency

The latest on the endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo

What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous

Did the Dinosaurs Bug Out?

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