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Why the Sun Was So Quiet for So Long

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Cooper-Hewitt Announces a New Exhibition iPad App

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How to Find Trustworthy Science and Health Information

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It’s March Already? Celebrate With Lions and Lambs at the Smithsonian

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Looking Back at A&E’s “Dinosaur!”

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The Ice King Cometh: Frederic Tudor, Father of the Ice Industry

Moammar Qadhafi speaking in 1986 during a time of heightened tension between Libya and the United States.

Ronald Reagan and Moammar Qadhafi

Twenty-five years ago, President Reagan minced no words when he talked about the Libyan dictator

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps

GRAND PRIZE WINNER Indonesian artists make a few final touches before performing Bhopal, India • Photographed June 2008 Hatvalne, who has worked as a photojournalist for the past two decades, was taken by the dancers’ fastidious preparations before a performance. “I love photographing people,” he says. “I also sometimes photograph landscapes as well, but there is no better landscape than a human face.”

8th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2010 contest

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Tour the American History Museum With an American Girl

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Debunking the “Dinosaurs” of Kachina Bridge

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Experiments in Cooking: Salmon Poached in the Dishwasher

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Quagga: The Lost Zebra

In South Africa, quaggas were hunted to extinction in the late 1800s

Under the right conditions, patterns emerge from the brain's monumental complexity.

Beauty of the Brain

Stunning new images reveal the marvelous and mysterious world inside our heads

The Makgadikgadi Pans National Park is part of a rare African open wild land. The environment is so harsh that zebras have to cover a lot of ground to survive.

Nothing Can Stop the Zebra

A 150-mile fence in the Kalahari Desert appeared to threaten Africa’s zebras, but now researchers can breathe a sigh of relief

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Wild Things: Giant Pandas, an Ancient Ibis and More…

Panda-friendly forests, one bizarre bird and foxes on junk food

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Women in Science

Smithsonian spotlights the women that are changing the face of scientific research

One of the country's most popular rappers, J-Me avoids political statements in his music. But his lyrics, he says, reflect the concerns of Myanmar's young.

Myanmar’s Young Artists and Activists

In the country formerly known as Burma, these free thinkers are a force in the struggle for democracy

The dam, to be built at the confluence of the Inambari and Araza rivers, is one of dozens expected to power South America's economic ascent.

A Mega-Dam Dilemma in the Amazon

A huge dam on Peru’s Inambari River will bring much-needed development to the region. But at what cost?

"You didn't learn your history, you lived it," says Cornelia Bailey, who grew up on Sapelo.

Holding on to Gullah Culture

A Smithsonian curator visits a Georgia island to find stories of a shrinking community that has clung to its African traditions

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