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 …
Not all bathrooms are clean, which poses a problem for holiday travelers trying to keep their hands clean. Seroma72/Shutterstock.com By Michelle Sconce Massaquoi Doctoral candidate, microbiology, University of Oregon – For my fourth-grade science fair project, I tested different soaps to …
There have been only two other documented instances of interspecies adoption—and never between animals that strongly compete for resources in the wild. The mother lion, her lion cubs and her adopted spotted leopard baby, all got along just fine. (Dheeraj Mittal/Deputy Conservator of …
By Setareh Janda – Who was Mata Hari? Exotic dancer, courtesan, seductress, spy, and femme fatale: Mata Hari was many things to many different people. But she is perhaps best remembered for the fact that she was executed during World War I …
Depending on where you’re from, you say words like ‘basil’ a specific way. Leonie Broekstra/Shutterstock.com. By Christine Mallinson, Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture and Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Curious Kids is a …
By Michael Irving – The discovery of a novel protein in a meteorite strengthens the argument that life’s building blocks arrived from space. paulfleet/Depositphotos. – Scientists have discovered a full, previously-unknown protein inside a meteorite for the first time. Named hemolithin, the new protein …
By Setareh Janda – Anyone who grew up reading Scott O’Dell’s classic Island of the Blue Dolphins was probably captivated by the main character. She is a young woman who lives on an island in the Pacific Ocean totally alone. Her entire tribe has …
By Loz Blain – Designed for symmetry to keep the parts list down, the Citroen Ami’s right and left doors are the same part. Thus, they open in opposite directions. Copyright maison-vignaux @ Continental Productions. – A truly unique little car is coming to …
By Amanda Sedlak-Hevener – Who was Victoria Woodhull? You might not know her name, but once you hear her story, you’ll never forget her. She was the first woman to run for President of the United States, and as a third-party candidate, no …
