ea A Thief Replaced This Iconic Churchill Portrait With a Fake. Two Years Later, the Original Has Been Recovered By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:03:15 +0000 Investigators discovered that the original print of "The Roaring Lion" had been sold to a buyer in Italy Full Article
ea A Mysterious Seismic Signal Lasted Nine Days Last Year. It Was a Mega-Tsunami Caused by Climate Change, Researchers Say By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:45:43 +0000 A melting glacier caused a mountain in Greenland to collapse into a narrow fjord, setting off an oscillating wave that rattled seismic detectors around the world Full Article
ea Divers Discover the Long-Lost Wreckage of a Passenger Steamship That Sank in a Hit-and-Run in 1856 By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:01:55 +0000 "Le Lyonnais" descended into the depths off the coast of Massachusetts after colliding with the "Adriatic," a sailing vessel that left the floundering steamship to fend for itself Full Article
ea Rare Yellow-Eyed Penguin Wins New Zealand's Bird of the Year Contest By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:18:13 +0000 The noisy-but-shy bird, known as the hoiho, has earned the most votes for a second time amid threats to its survival Full Article
ea See Footage of a Thief Breaking Into a London Gallery and Stealing Banksy's Iconic 'Girl With Balloon' By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:32:20 +0000 Officials launched an investigation and recovered the $360,000 print less than a week after it vanished from Grove Gallery. Two men have been charged for the crime Full Article
ea An 11-Year-Old Boy Rescued a Mysterious Artwork From the Dump. It Turned Out to Be a 500-Year-Old Renaissance Print By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:55:50 +0000 Experts have confirmed that the image of "Knight, Death and the Devil" is a real master engraving by the renowned German artist Albrecht Dürer Full Article
ea Deaths From Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Could Reach 39 Million by 2050, Study Suggests By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:30:08 +0000 A new paper analyzes three decades of fatalities around the world and predicts how "superbugs" will affect human health in the future Full Article
ea To Strike Fear Into Napoleon's Occupying Army, These Retreating Soldiers Burned Down Their Own City By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000 When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French—who had traveled hundreds of miles into Russia—were left without vital resources as a brutal winter approached Full Article
ea Anus-Breathing Animals and Pigeon-Guided Missiles: Ig Nobel Prizes Reward Unusual but Valuable Science By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000 The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten disciplines Full Article
ea 'Pirate Seabirds' Could Become a Pathway for Deadly Avian Flu to Spread to Australia, Study Finds By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:26:17 +0000 Kleptoparasitism, in which a bird harasses another to steal its food, might introduce avian flu to the continent, currently the only one without the severe H5N1 strain Full Article
ea Europeans Were Using Cocaine in the 17th Century—Hundreds of Years Earlier Than Historians Thought By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:43:28 +0000 Scientists identified traces of the drug in the brain tissue of two individuals buried in the crypt of a hospital in Milan Full Article
ea Georgia O'Keeffe's Breathtaking New York City Paintings Are Finally Getting the Attention They Deserve By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:49:51 +0000 The artist's cityscapes, once dismissed as too masculine, would later influence the floral artworks that became central to her iconic style Full Article
ea Construction Project Unearths Millions of Fossils Beneath a Los Angeles High School By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:25:55 +0000 The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine million years ago Full Article
ea The Hotel Chelsea's Iconic Neon Sign Will Be Divided Into Pieces and Sold One Letter at a Time By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:28:41 +0000 The vertical sign stretched across three stories of the Manhattan hotel, which once welcomed the likes of Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol and Janis Joplin Full Article
ea Archaeologists Say They've Solved the Mystery of a Lead Coffin Discovered Beneath Notre-Dame By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:03:01 +0000 New research suggests the sarcophagus' occupant, previously known only as "the horseman," is Joachim du Bellay, a French Renaissance poet who died in 1560 Full Article
ea Scientists Play Matchmaker for Beloved Sea Snails in the Florida Keys By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:10:43 +0000 To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters to help them find mates Full Article
ea Low Water Levels Reveal Sunken Nazi Ships Full of Unexploded Munitions in the Danube River By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:13:45 +0000 Due to a drought in Eastern Europe, the scuttled German vessels are reemerging 80 years after they disappeared beneath the river's surface Full Article
ea Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:54:00 +0000 A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, according to a new study Full Article
ea Van Gogh Painted Some of His Most Breathtaking Works During His Two Years in the South of France By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:21:45 +0000 A blockbuster exhibition in London examines the Dutch Post-Impressionist's creative output between 1888 and 1890, which was one of the most productive periods of his career Full Article
ea See an Ancient Egyptian Temple's Brilliant Colors, Newly Revealed Beneath Layers of Dust and Soot By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:12:12 +0000 Experts are carefully uncovering traces of the original paint and fragments of gold leaf that once adorned the 2,000-year-old Temple of Edfu Full Article
ea Astronomers Discover Record-Breaking Jets Escaping a Black Hole, the Longest Ever Seen By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:20:18 +0000 The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end Full Article
ea In Case Humans Go Extinct, This Memory Crystal Will Store Our Genome for Billions of Years By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:47:45 +0000 Scientists have created "a form of information immortality" meant to instruct future species on how to recreate humans. But who, or what, will find it? Full Article
ea Remarkable 200-Year-Old Rock Painting May Depict a Strange Animal That Went Extinct 250 Million Years Ago By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:18:29 +0000 The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large mammal ancestor with tusks, by at least a decade Full Article
ea 'The Starry Night' Accurately Depicts a Scientific Theory That Wasn't Described Until Years After van Gogh's Death By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:08:06 +0000 Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the artist was a careful observer of the world around him Full Article
ea Earth Is Getting a New 'Mini Moon' for the Next Two Months, Astronomers Say By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:21:39 +0000 A roughly 33-foot-long asteroid called 2024 PT5 will chart a horseshoe-like path around our planet Full Article
ea Heat Waves Can Make Bumblebees Lose Their Sense of Smell, Study Finds. Here's Why That's a Problem By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:37:46 +0000 Female worker bees, which forage for the whole colony, struggle more to detect scents in the heat than males do, per the recent research Full Article
ea World's First Ultra-Precise Nuclear Clock Is Within Reach After Major Breakthrough, Researchers Say By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:53:18 +0000 The technology, enabled by thorium atoms, could keep time more accurately than atomic clocks and enable new discoveries about gravity, gravitational waves and dark matter Full Article
ea Virginia State Parks Install Viewfinders for People With Colorblindness, Just in Time for Leaf-Peeping Season By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:40:01 +0000 The viewfinders are outfitted with special lenses that help people with red-green colorblindness distinguish between hues Full Article
ea See Ten Striking Images From the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:01:00 +0000 The annual contest unveiled its winners, highlighting avian photos that focus on conservation issues, the beauty of birds and their sometimes hilarious behavior Full Article
ea This Lost Mozart Composition Hasn't Been Heard for Centuries. Now, You Can Listen to It By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:31:27 +0000 More than 250 years after a teenage Mozart wrote "Serenade in C," a copy of the piece has surfaced in the collections of a German library Full Article
ea Watch Octopuses Team Up With Fish to Hunt—and Punch Those That Don't Contribute By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:16:15 +0000 The collaboration across species reveals a surprising social behavior of octopuses, researchers say Full Article
ea Mysterious 'Mechanical-Sounding' Noise Near the Mariana Trench May Now Have an Explanation By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:09:50 +0000 An acoustic survey in 2018 and new analysis with A.I. suggest the sounds are vocalizations from the elusive Bryde’s whale Full Article
ea The Highest Peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park Will Now Be Called by Its Cherokee Name By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:19:56 +0000 In 1858, the mountain was named for a Confederate general. Now, it will once again be known as "Kuwohi" Full Article
ea Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:52:11 +0000 The mysterious missive was written by P.J. Féret, who conducted an archaeological dig at the same site in northern France in 1825 Full Article
ea Rare and Elusive Australian Bird, Once Thought Extinct for 100 Years, Discovered by Indigenous Rangers and Scientists By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:30:09 +0000 Using sound recordings, the team identified the largest known population of the night parrot, a secretive species known as the "Holy Grail of birdwatching" Full Article
ea These 3,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Are Pivotal Clues in the Mystery of 'Europe's Oldest Known Battlefield' By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:58:45 +0000 While no written records exist, new research has illuminated key details of the battle fought in northern Germany during the 13th century B.C.E. Full Article
ea Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a Seventh of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries' That Support Life By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:46:50 +0000 A new “health check” for our planet sounds an alarm bell on rising ocean acidification, which is driven by carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere Full Article
ea DNA Reveals Identity of Officer on the Lost Franklin Expedition—and His Remains Show Signs of Cannibalism By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:08:48 +0000 Researchers recently identified James Fitzjames, a captain on the ill-fated HMS Erebus that went looking for the Northwest Passage in 1845 Full Article
ea Heart Tissue Shows Signs of Aging After Just One Month in Space, Study Finds By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:35:17 +0000 Scientists sent bioengineered heart tissue samples to the ISS to study how to keep astronauts safe during future long-term space travel Full Article
ea The World's Oldest Cheese Was Buried in a Chinese Tomb 3,600 Years Ago. Now, Scientists Have Sequenced Its DNA By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:23:17 +0000 New research has revealed that the mysterious white substance found alongside three ancient mummies was once a soft cheese called kefir Full Article
ea This 3,775-Year-Old Log May Hold the Secret to a Low-Cost Climate Solution By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:31:29 +0000 Researchers say burying wood could be a viable method to prevent carbon from reaching the atmosphere Full Article
ea Hours After the Protesters Who Threw Soup at a van Gogh Were Sentenced, Three More Activists Repeated the Stunt By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:35:18 +0000 Two members of Just Stop Oil staged the original demonstration in late 2022. Group members say the harsh penalties will not deter their efforts Full Article
ea This Shipwreck's Location Was a Mystery for 129 Years. Then, Two Men Found It Just Minutes Into a Three-Day Search By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:26:07 +0000 The "John Evenson" tugboat was helping another ship enter the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in Wisconsin when it sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1895 Full Article
ea Geologists Reveal a Surprising Reason Why Mount Everest Grows Taller Each Year By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:18:39 +0000 Earth's highest peak has gained as much as an extra 165 feet in elevation as the planet's crust adjusts due to erosion from a river, according to a new study Full Article
ea One Year After England's Famous Sycamore Gap Tree Was Illegally Felled, a New Exhibition Honors Its Legacy By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:30:59 +0000 The show coincides with an initiative that will give away 49 of the tree's saplings to individuals and communities across the country Full Article
ea A Treasure Hunter Just Uncovered the $100,000 Prize Hidden in the Massachusetts Woods By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:34:24 +0000 Two weeks ago, organizers of Project Skydrop stashed a golden statuette in a secret location somewhere in the northeastern United States Full Article
ea A Junk Dealer Discovered a 'Horrible' Painting in a Cellar 60 Years Ago. It Might Be a $6.6 Million Picasso By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000 For years, the owner's son had wondered about the artwork, which features the Spanish painter's signature. Now, some experts think it's the real deal Full Article
ea Astronomers Discover a Small Exoplanet That's Our Cosmic Neighbor at Just Six Light-Years Away By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:33:44 +0000 Orbiting Barnard's star, the nearest solo star to Earth, the world is too hot to be habitable—a scorching 257 degrees Fahrenheit Full Article
ea Breast Cancer Cases Are Rising Among Younger Women, Report Finds By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:53:27 +0000 Though breast cancer mortality is declining overall, Asian American women and women under 50 have experienced an uptick in diagnoses of the disease Full Article
ea Montana Rancher Who Created Giant, Hybrid Sheep Sentenced to Six Months in Prison By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:30:00 +0000 Arthur “Jack” Schubarth cloned illegally imported genetic material from the Marco Polo argali to create hybrid sheep that would draw higher prices from hunting preserves Full Article