To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
Oral traditions may have preserved records of impacts over thousands of years and could lead to fresh scientific discoveries
Thomas Dolby — Musician, Producer & Director
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Buzz Aldrin: Apollo 11 Astronaut
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Elizabeth Cottrell — Director of Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program
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André Fenton — New York University Neuroscientist, Biomedical Engineer & Entrepreneur
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Justin Kasper — Solar Astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Solar Astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Kirk Johnson — Director of the National Museum of Natural History
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Lola Fatoyinbo-Agueh — NASA Earth Scientist
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Robert Ballard — Ocean Explorer
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Odile Madden — Materials Scientist & Engineer, Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute
Materials Scientist & Engineer, Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute
Maria Klawe — Mathematician, Computer Scientist & President of Harvey Mudd College
Mathematician, Computer Scientist & President of Harvey Mudd College
Nick Pyenson — Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at National Museum of Natural History
Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at National Museum of Natural History
John Mather: Nobel Laureate & Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
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Suzan Murray — Chief Veterinarian at the National Zoo
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Eric Green — Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
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What Traditional Societies Can Teach You About Life
A new book from best-selling author Jared Diamond tells us how we can learn a lot from people who live like most of us did 11,000 years ago
Why Mass Incarceration Defines Us As a Society
Bryan Stevenson, the winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in social justice, has taken his fight all the way to the Supreme Court
PHOTOS: The Distressing Worldwide Boom in Cosmetic Surgery
Photographer Zed Nelson traveled the world documenting how body improvement has practically become a new religion
How a Missile Silo Became the Most Difficult Interior Decorating Job Ever
A relic from the Cold War, this instrument of death gets a new life … and a new look
The Mooncake: A Treat, a Bribe or a Tradition Whose Time Has Passed?
Is the mooncake just going through a phase or are these new variations on the Chinese treat here to stay?
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