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Triceratops: More Than T-Rex Food
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In the popular imagination, Triceratops is too often understood simply in the context of its pred...
Mary Anning the Fossil Hunter
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Decades before Charles Darwin introduced his theory of evolution, another equally controversial ...
The Fastest Computer in the World: Seymour Cray and the Cray-1
Computer advancement is always a matter of miniaturization. Data that once took a car-sized compu...
The Miniature World: A History of the Smithsonian
Dotted along the National Mall, in the heart of Washington DC, the Smithsonian’s museums contain ...
Stromatolites: The Earliest Life
Charles Darwin had a problem: with a poor fossil record preceding the Cambrian explosion, his the...
The Bone Wars: Paleontology's Greatest Rivalry
Many of our early insights into the dinosaurs of North America owe themselves to the dramatic riv...
The Dinosaur Tyrant: A Look at the T. Rex
Measuring 40ft (12m) in length and weighing upwards of 14 tons, Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the ...
Chelyabinsk 10 Years Later
Ten years ago today, a flash of light streaked across the sky over Western Russia. For a brief mo...
The RMS Lusitania (1907-1915)
It was one of the largest and fastest ships of its time, but today the RMS Lusitania is remembere...
How to Start a Collection
So you want to start a collection, but you’re faced with the same daunting question every novice ...
Plesiosaurus: Mary Anning's Sea Monster
Featuring a long, snake-like neck and a stout body equipped with slender paddles, Plesiosaurs are...
The History of Giving Gifts
Throughout human history, across wildly different civilizations and cultures, certain universal b...
SR-71 Blackbird: The Fastest Plane in the Sky
The SR-71 was a top secret reconnaissance plane that flew throughout the Cold War, serving from i...
The History of Collecting
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Understanding Extinction Events
An artist's rendering of the Chicxulub impact. (Source: Mini Museum)
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Methods of Scientific Dating
An image of the Grand Canyon, with layers of the Earth exposed. (Source: National Park Service)
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The Birth of our Solar System
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Spinosaurus: An Changing Aquatic Predator!
An old model Spinosaurus in a Cretaceous River Delta. Our new understanding of the creature has a...
Nothing Would Ever Be The Same : Stories from the Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the codename for the research and development effort which allowed the...
The Currents of Migration - An Essay on Human Migration in History
As we’ve followed the progression of life across billions of years of history, we’ve come across ...
7 Unique Science Gifts for Historians
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The Beautiful, Constant Change of Mount Fuji
At 3,776 meters, Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan. Yet, the modern Mount Fuji is actua...
Do Space Cowboys Ever Sing the Blues?
In 2015, NASA Astronaut and International Space Station Commander Scott Kelly noted that "music i...
Fifteen Recipes for Preparing Dinosaur Eggs
When thinking about deep time, we often find ourselves caught up in the grand movements and n...
We are Made of Stardust
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How This Planet Became Our Planet
Today is the 52nd celebration of "Earth Day" since the holiday's conception in 1970. Though it's ...
How to Buy a Dinosaur Fossil
It may sound surprising, but dinosaurs don't just have to stay at the museum; there are plenty of...
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