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His discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math
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Fireflies’ come-hither signals are being decoded by penlight-wielding biologists who’ve found treachery, also, in the summer-night flashes
A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas
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Sally Mann’s unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about
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Zana Briski and collaborator Ross Kauffman’s Academy Award winning documentary chronicals the resilience of children in a Calcutta red-light district
The fin de sià¨cle artist who captured Paris’ cabarets and dance halls is drawing crowds to a new exhibition at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art
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The eruption of Mount St. Helens 25 years ago this month was no surprise. But the speedy return of wildlife to the area is astonishing
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How a dark tale of love, madness and murder in 18th-century London became a story for the ages
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For some stories, the roots go way back, even to childhood
After a canoe capsizes, the first sight of the mountainous “snowey barrier” lifts the corps’ spirits
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Why did humans first turn from nomadic wandering to villages and togetherness? The answer may lie in a 9,500-year-old settlement in central Turkey
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When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost
Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the justices who stopped his New Deal programs, a president overreaches
The Institution decides to focus on four basic questions
Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal fires threaten towns, poison air and water, and add to global warming
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It’s hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
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Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late
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You may not want them on your pizza, but along the Mediterranean they’re a prized delicacy and a cultural treasure
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The volatile Korubo of the Amazon still live in almost total isolation. Indian tracker Sydney Possuelo is trying to keep their world intact
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With a new Indian memorial, the site of Custer’s last stand draws descendants of victors and vanquished alike
In Jackson, Mississippi, preservationists are restoring the verdant retreat that sustained novelist Eudora Welty
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