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Discover Nevada’s Living and Abandoned Ghost Towns
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (457+ words) These five former boomtowns invite you to step into the state’s mining history Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton…...
Covid-19 Can Reawaken Dormant Viruses in the Body, Which Might Worsen Symptoms of the Respiratory Illness, Study Suggests
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (418+ words) Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent Most people become infected with a virus at some point in their lives, be it one that causes the flu or one that causes the common cold. Usually, our bodies can fully clear them out. But…...
Lions, Lions and Lions, Oh My! 15 Photos of the Most Majestic Big Cats Found Throughout Africa
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (72+ words) Travel | August 14, 2026 7:05 a.m. Out on safari, this tired lion lets out a big yawn after an early morning hunt. Text by Jess Daninhirsch Donny Bajohr | Read More Jess Daninhirsch is a reporting intern focusing on museums for Smithsonian magazine. Explore great…...
Meat Wasn't the Only Food That Drove Early Humans to Evolve Bigger Brains. Sugar May Have Fueled the Organ's Enlargement, Too
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (481+ words) Eli Stark-Elster | AAAS Mass Media Fellow Long before soft drinks and cookies, our ancestors may have had a serious sweet tooth. Rather than reaching for sodas, early hominins likely raided bee nests for honey and sought out ripe fruit. The…...
A Historian at MIT Discovered the Surprising Truth About This Chinese Label Long Thought to Be a Souvenir of the Boston Tea Party
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (559+ words) Ryley Graham | Correspondent As a historian of China who studies how societies come to accept ideas as knowledge, Tristan Brown doesn’t formally research American history often. So when the American Historical Review called on scholars to submit essays about objects…...
The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1612+ words) Kristen A. Schmitt | Freelance writer Research shows that more than 31 million Americans—or nearly one in ten people—experience a tick bite every year. While some tick bites can be harmless, these parasitic arachnids that feed on both animals and people…...
A Man Unearthed a Mysterious Metal Object Sticking Straight Up From the Ground. It Turned Out to Be a 2,700-Year-Old Sword
2+ week, 2+ day ago (625+ words) Ellen Wexler | Writer and Special Projects Editor Marcin Wiśniewski was having a slow day. At first, his metal detector identified only bottle caps and beer cans. Then his machine got so quiet that he wondered whether it had stopped working....
Stanford University's Founding Matriarch Was a Travel-Loving Philanthropist Who Met a Tragic End. A New Exhibition Explores Her Life, Grief and Death by Poison
2+ week, 4+ day ago (670+ words) Women Who Shaped History A Smithsonian magazine special report History | July 30, 2026 7:45 a.m. Jane Stanford’s legacy is the focus of a new showcase at the California university. The display features artifacts that have never previously been exhibited Jess Daninhirsch | Reporting Intern, Museums…...
A Premature Baby Giraffe Born Via C-Section Is Fighting for Her Life at a Zoo in Kansas
2+ week, 4+ day ago (689+ words) Sarah Kuta | Daily Correspondent A baby giraffe is fighting for her life at a zoo in Kansas. The female reticulated giraffe calf, named Milani, was recently born via cesarean section—a procedure no known giraffe calf has ever survived, according…...
TSA Officers Found Five Cannonballs Stolen From a Civil War Fort in a Checked Suitcase at an Alabama Airport
2+ week, 4+ day ago (494+ words) Sonja Anderson | Daily Correspondent A Transportation Security Administration officer got a scare this month at Alabama’s Gulf Shores International Airport (JKA). He was running checked luggage through an X-ray machine and spotted an opaque lump in a bag. When experts…...