The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...
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Researchers calculated every glacier’s lifespan and found that even at the most ambitious Paris Agreement goal, the planet ...
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Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft may upend Titan’s status as an ocean world. But it might still have ...
A total of 1,435 couples almost tripled the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people kissing beneath the ...
Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...
Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...
Among the museum’s artifacts, which were hidden during the long closure, are a 5,400-year-old mummy and remnants from the ...
The deposed Scottish queen wrote the four-page missive to her brother-in-law just a few hours before her execution in 1587 ...
New research finds that at least four individuals who died in the eruption were wearing woolen tunics and cloaks, which ...