Smithsonian Voices National Museum of Natural History What to Expect When the Cicadas Emerge This Spring April 15th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Abigail Eisenstadt The periodical cicada species, Magicicada septendecim,…
Continue readingResearchers analyzed the genomes of 317 Indigenous Oceanian people to reconstruct a history of migration through the vast island region. Marc Dozier By Michael PriceApr. 14, 2021 , 11:20 AM…
Continue readingHistory books were rewritten at Augusta National on Sunday afternoon as 29-year-old Hideki Matsuyama became the first player from the golf-loving nation of Japan to win a men’s major championship…
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Continue readingHuman transactions have come far since the Stone Age. The commodity trading of our ancestors eventually gave way to money, which in the past few thousand years has cycled through…
Continue readingNASA is about to make history on the Red Planet with the first controlled, powered flight on another world. This Sunday (April 11), NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is expected to…
Continue readingWe all have heard of such a concept as golf, but not everyone can imagine what is meant by this concept. This article examines the history of golf in its…
Continue readingSmithsonian Voices National Museum of Natural History How Museum Collections Advance Knowledge of Human Health April 7th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Emily Leclerc The National Museum of Natural History’s 146…
Continue readingComing down with an infectious disease in early 1900s London would have been a pretty unsettling experience. Not only were effective treatments hard to come by, but the municipality had…
Continue readingThousands of New Yorkers lined the harbor as the steamship Rotterdam pulled into its berth on April 2, 1921. They were cheering not for a movie star or a statesman,…
Continue readingSmithsonian Voices Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute A Young Comic Book Heroine Travels Through Panama’s Deep History March 31st, 2021, 11:30AM / BY Vanessa Crooks Illustration from the graphic novel ‘Martina…
Continue readingSmithsonian Voices National Museum of Natural History 11 Free Natural History Programs Streaming in April March 30th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Anna Torres Participate in the City Nature Challenge by…
Continue readingJamel Herring and Carl Frampton will engage in the first title fight in Dubai (Photo courtesy of D4G Promotions). The final press conference took place on Thursday between WBO junior…
Continue readingWhen Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, sparking the beginning of World War II, the leaders of a Warsaw-based chapter of the Zionist HeHalutz youth movement instructed its members to…
Continue readingYou may have heard of the “Mercury 13,” but what really happened with the women who wanted to be the first female astronauts? In her new book, “Fighting for Space:…
Continue readingAngela introduced Nev online to an 8-year-old prodigy painter, a 19-year-old seductress, and a whole cast of supporting characters composed of MP3 fragments, online video, photographs, text messages, and nearly…
Continue readingU.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a special call to the International Space Station (ISS) to celebrate Women’s History Month and some of the ground-breaking work astronauts are doing in…
Continue readingIbrahima Konate, who has emerged as Liverpool’s no.1 centre-back target, has suffered from injuries the past two seasons – undeniably. A muscle fibre injury basically wrote off the 2019/20 season,…
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