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By Katherine Ripley – Updated October 24, 2019 – If you’re a woman, especially in a male-dominated field, you probably know what it feels like to be overshadowed by male colleagues, even when you’re doing better work than them. All of the women …
By Rich Haridy – “Horse Motion.” A horse breeder plays a horse in one of the stables of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Abbas Alkhamis, Saudi Arabia, Winner, National Awards, 2020 Sony World Photography Awards. – One of the largest and most prestigious …
By Michael Irving – The new bendable concrete is put to the test. Swinburne University. – Concrete is the world’s most widely-used building material thanks to its incredible strength – but it doesn’t stand up well against bending. Now, researchers at Swinburne University …
By Genevieve Carlton – Updated November 21, 2019 – What was it like to live at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project? As thousands worked to build a top-secret atomic device, the US military tried to keep the entire city secret. All …
By Quinn Armstrong – Updated August 20, 2019 – Within a complex of chapels, cathedrals, and palaces in Turino, Italia, there’s an airtight case made of bulletproof glass. The temperature and chemical composition of the air inside this case is carefully …
Alba, who was captured and caged in 2017, underwent nearly two years of rehabilitation. (BOSF 2020/Indrayana) – By Brigit Katz, SmithsonianMag.Com – Last month, conservationists released three rehabilitated orangutans into Indonesia’s Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park. While monitoring one of the primates, …
By Aaron Turpen – It may not look so, but the Morgan Plus Four is completely new from the ground up. Morgan Motors. – The Plus 4 has been a Morgan Motors staple since 1950, but eventually, all things must change. Sometimes it’s for …
By Anthony Wood – A foraging bumblebee. Tara Cox / Imperial College London. – Pesticide contamination may be responsible for triggering abnormal brain development in baby bumblebees, according to the results of a new scientific paper. Researchers scanned the brains of 92 worker bees …
By Rich Haridy – Finalist, Natural World. “Adelie Penguin on an Iceberg” Conor Ryan. All rights reserved – The finalists in the 17th Smithsonian Photo Contest have been revealed, selected from over 36,000 submissions. Here are our picks from the 60 sensational finalist photographs. …
Maggie Lena Walker was one of the most important Black businesswomen in the nation, and today too few people have heard of her. Maggie Lena Walker, from the Scurlock Studio Collection in our Archives Center. By Crystal Marie Moten – Maggie Lena Walker …
