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Europeans Were Using Cocaine in the 17th Century—Hundreds of Years Earlier Than Historians Thought
Scientists identified traces of the drug in the brain tissue of two individuals buried in the crypt of a hospital in Milan ...
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In a Landmark Study, Scientists Discover Just How Much Earth’s Temperature Has Changed Over Nearly 500 Million Years
Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...
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Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
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How the Constitution Was Drafted With Hope and Compromise
It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution. This short document, drafted in 1787 in a hot and stuffy ...
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Low Water Levels Reveal Sunken Nazi Ships Full of Unexploded Munitions in the Danube River
Due to a drought in Eastern Europe, the scuttled German vessels are reemerging 80 years after they disappeared beneath the river's surface ...
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Scientists Play Matchmaker for Beloved Sea Snails in the Florida Keys
To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters ...
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Fetching Fossils and Unwrapping Mannequins: Here’s What Happens When a Museum Exhibition Closes
In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...
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An 11-Year-Old Boy Rescued a Mysterious Artwork From the Dump. It Turned Out to Be a 500-Year-Old Renaissance Print
Experts have confirmed that the image of "Knight, Death and the Devil" is a real master engraving by the renowned German ...
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The Odd Arctic Military Projects Spawned by the Cold War
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...
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How Century-Old Paintings Reveal the Indigenous Roots and Natural History of New England Landscapes
His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...
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Creativity and Co-Creation Bring Local Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander Histories to the Classroom
Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories ...
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The Race to Save Mezcal From the World
Climate change, corporate money, soaring demand—can Mexico’s local agave growers find a viable path for a beloved beverage? José Santiago of Palenque Don Lencho, in San Pablo Guilá village ...