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Butterfly basin: Astronomers find the biggest known reservoir of planet-forming ingredients around a young star!
In the vast expanse of the cosmos, countless elements and compounds converge in cosmic clouds, offe…
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A doctor who helped collect hundreds of unauthorized remains for the Smithsonian in the early 1900s disproportionately took the brains of Black people: report
A collection of human brains included only three donated by the person's family, leaving a Smithson…
Sebastian Cahill
Why over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has one of the biggest bird collections in the w…
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Trump PAC's $650,000 'charitable contribution' to the Smithsonian will pay for portraits of Donald and Melania Trump
Donald Trump's Save America PAC disclosed in a financial filing that it made the contribution to th…
Dave Levinthal
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The Smithsonian released a 129-song track list to their rap anthology, showing the genre's evolution over the past 4 decades
The 129-song tracklist features cultural giants from the last four decades, such as Sugar Hill Gang…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Jeff Bezos just gave $200 million to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, the heftiest donation the institution has ever received
Of this amount, $70 million will go to funding the museum's renovations, and $130 million will esta…
Cheryl Teh
Inside the largest natural history collection in the world — the 147 million specimens hidden in the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled anima…
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All of the lions and tigers at the National Zoo in Washington DC have caught COVID-19
Six African lions, a Sumatran tiger, and two Amur tigers all tested positive for the coronavirus, w…
Jake Epstein
How this 8,000-pound crystal went from a mine to the Smithsonian
With their Instagram and self-care appeal, crystals have exploded in popularity. But as demand has …
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New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim donated the 'off-the-rack' J. Crew suit he wore on January 6 to the Smithsonian
Kim said he decided to donate the "unremarkable" suit because "telling the story" of the riot at th…
Connor Perrett
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped into GOP Sen. Mike Lee after he blocked the creation of Latino and women's history museums during a dramatic Senate session
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez and GOP Sen. Susan Collins both pushed back at Lee, who said Americans d…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Debris from China's disintegrating rocket enters Earth's atmosphere
Most of the debris from the rocket burned up during its re-entry, the official media quoted t…
PTI
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See Donald Trump's photo debut in the National Portrait Gallery's presidential exhibition
A photo of Trump sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office will be on display as part of the …
Erin Snodgrass
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Here's what Trump's PAC spent in July: Subscriptions to 'fake news' like the New York Times, an unusual donation to the Smithsonian, and nearly one million in legal fees
Former President Donald Trump's PAC received a major spike in donations last week in the wake of th…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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A Smithsonian museum has a whole portal filled with free resources to help everyone including parents and teachers talk about race
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture's portal is designed to h…
Rachel Askinasi
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Indra Nooyi and Jeff Bezos inducted into Smithsonian's portrait gallery
To be an immigrant, a South Asian immigrant of colour, a woman to be included in the Portrait Ga…
PTI
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The Smithsonian just released 2.8 million free digital images of its collection in an 'unprecedented' move. Here are some the most iconic.
So far, the collection has 2.8 million images from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine resear…
Mary Meisenzahl
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Selfie sticks are now banned at the Smithsonian
The gadget was added on Tuesday to the list of prohibited photography accessories forbidden at the …
Leslie Larson
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Step inside the Smithsonian's incredibly organized hidden collection rooms
For over two decades the museum has preserved more than 90% of its collection in these rooms, sorti…