This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...

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Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

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After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

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Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

A company called BlueGreen Water Technologies aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while also fighting algae’s ...

Diana Kruzman is a journalist reporting on religion, the environment and urbanism. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and Gizmodo, among other publications ...