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Why Walking on Legos Hurts More Than Walking on Fire or Ice

New Research

With Humans Out of the Way, Humpbacks Are Flourishing—But So Are Orcas

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A Smithsonian Sports Curator Explains How Athletes Turn Social and Political Issues into National Conversations

Three Centuries After His Beheading, a Kinder, Gentler Blackbeard Emerges

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The Future Is Bright If More Teens Could Think About High School the Way Kavya Kopparapu Does

A Veteran Combat Photographer Recalls His Most Memorable Shots

Prehistoric Angolan “Sea Monsters” Take Up Residence at the Natural History Museum

How a Photograph Solved an Art Mystery

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Astrophysicist Michelle Thaller on Understanding Our Place in the Universe

How the Poppy Came to Symbolize World War I