The luxury liner was requisitioned as a hospital ship during World War I. Thirty people died after the vessel struck a German ...
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Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...
Creator Richard O’Brien reflects on how the 1975 movie musical became a haven for the "marginalized and disenfranchised" ...
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The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...
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Christian Thorsberg is an environmental writer and photographer from Chicago. His work, which often centers on freshwater ...
A cache of coins bearing the faces of the Roman emperors Constantius II and Constans I was discovered in underground tunnels ...