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The Smithsonian Institution's 12th Secretary says he'll step down next October
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Dan Corson's latest installation in Seattle—flower sculptures that light up at night—show that solar energy is viable even in the cloudy Pacific Northwest
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The best questions and responses as pulled from Twitter
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Today the Zoo's veterinarians gave the giant panda cub a full exam and pronounced the cub healthy and thriving
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Three new exhibitions explore humans' relationship to the ocean
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White whales, such as the recently spotted humpback nicknamed Migaloo, are rare and elusive creatures. How many are there and why are they white?
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Earwax collected from a beached whale shows that the creature ingested a host of toxins, such as DDT and mercury, throughout its life
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Cornelia Kavanagh's sculptures magnify tiny sea butterflies—ocean acidification's unlikely mascots—hundreds of times
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Employee morale rose but architecture critics were repulsed upon the opening of the company's new campus in Purchase, New York
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On September 15, 1963, four were killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
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The fleur de sel has long been a trademark of French culinary craftsmanship, Oregon’s Jacobsen may have produced a salt crystal that competes with the best
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With the help of a little liquid nitrogen, German photographer Martin Klimas captures the fragile chaos of flowers as they explode
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Being a righty or a lefty could be linked to variations in a network of genes that influence right or left asymmetries in the body and brain
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The small hopping insect <i>Issus coleoptratus</i> uses toothed gears on its joints to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward
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In a new book, documentary and exhibition, photographer Edward Burtynsky looks at humans' dramatic relationship with water
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For the new documentary More Than Honey, filmmakers captured the insects mating in midair
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In the 1960s, Pepsi rebranded with a new slogan, a new look, and a cutting edge modernist building
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The fish can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars each. But just 45 years ago, big bluefin tuna were caught for fun, killed and ground into pet food
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Birds with high ratios of brain size to body size maintain lower levels of stress hormones in their blood compared to their less intellectual counterparts
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Research shows that a molecule in the peppers activates your cells' touch receptors, making them feel like they've been rapidly vibrated
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