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You’ve Seen Jackson Pollock’s Dizzying Drip Paintings. But His Wife, Lee Krasner, Was Also a Major Player in the Abstract Expressionist Movement

Past Continuous," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will examine the lives and careers of both artists, who ...
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In the World’s Best Place to See Wild Jaguars, Residents Are Using the Big Cat’s Appeal to Reach Conservation Goals

Brazil’s Pantanal region has the highest jaguar density on Earth, drawing camera-toting visitors to its riverbanks. Despite ...
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To Help Save Wildlife, Ecologists Learn AI Skills at the National Zoo’s Science Campus

In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging ...
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Meet the Scientist Analyzing Historic Bison DNA to Understand How the Species Rebounded from the Edge of Extinction

Meet the Scientist Analyzing Historic Bison DNA to Understand How the Species Rebounded from the Edge of Extinction.
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Ashley D'Souza

Ashley D'Souza. Ashley D’Souza is a science writing intern at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where ...
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These Clownfish Lose Their Baby Stripes in Response to Peer Pressure, New Research Suggests

Tomato clownfish perform a dramatic underwater wardrobe change based on the social dynamics of their environment ...
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They Joked About Discovering a Forgotten Masterpiece. Now, Experts Say They’re the Unwitting Owners of an Original Rembrandt

"Vision of Zacharias in the Temple" had been removed from the Dutch painter's oeuvre in the 1960s. But when the owners brought it to the Rijksmuseum, scholars decided to conduct a close analysis ...
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Why Do Basketball Players’ Shoes Squeak on the Court? Here’s the Physics Behind the Iconic, High-Pitched Sounds

“We were not expecting to find so much richness and depth, from a physics point of view, underneath the sole of a shoe,” study co-author Adel Djellouli, a physicist at Harvard University, tells ...
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See 15 Wild and Wondrous Photographs of Yellowstone National Park

Take a virtual tour of the nation’s first—and some say most beautiful—national park ...
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Rooted in the American West: Food, History and Culture

This series will trace how the American West's identity has been shaped by its people, landscapes and legacies ...
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These California Condors Might Be Tending to the Species’ First Egg in the State’s Northern Region in More Than a Century

Experts haven't confirmed the existence of an egg, but the nesting birds' behaviors suggest one was laid in early February ...
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Joel Balsam

Joel Balsam is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His writing can also be found in Lonely Planet, National Geographic Travel, TIME and many more outlets.