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April 2010
Features
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Probing the Biggest Mystery in the Universe
At the South Pole, astronomers try to unravel a force greater than gravity that will determine the fate of the cosmos
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All-American Monsters
A mammoth discovery in 1705 sparked a fossil craze and gave the young United States a symbol of national might
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Return to Indonesia
A reporter chronicles the revival of the world's most populous Muslim nation a decade after its disintegration
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Saving the Silkies
In Madagascar, an American researcher races to protect one of the world's rarest mammals, a white lemur known as the silky sifaka
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Glimpses of the Lost World
Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization
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The Best Bull Ever?
A Texas cattleman used genetic science to breed his masterpiece – a near-perfect Red Angus bull. Then nature took its course
Departments
On the Waterfront
Baltimore's A. Aubrey Bodine cast a romantic light on the city's dockworkers in painterly photographs
Ireland's Forgotten Sons
In Pennsylvania, amateur archaeologists unearth a mass grave of immigrant railroad workers who disappeared in 1832
Bi-Centennial
In 2010, the Institution celebrates two seminal events – the founding of its Natural History Museum and the inauguration of its research in Panama
Hue and Cries
In 1851, Levi Hill claimed he invented color photography. Was he a genius or a fraud?
Dressed for Success
NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz famously wore a homemade white vest as he averted tragedy during the Apollo 13 mission
What's Up
Unusual Suspect
Why has popular opinion of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland undergone such a dramatic reversal?
Like a Dog in a Canoe
If you think learning foreign idioms is easy, just try combing the giraffe