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North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur

TIL that the term 'bug' in software comes from an actual bug—a moth—that got stuck in a Harvard computer in 1947, causing a malfunction

Beer on Board in the Age of Sail (2017)

Populism and the World of Oz (2016)

The Taming of the Screw (2000)

How do you put on an Apollo spacesuit? (2015)

Black Hole Destroys Star, Goes After Another, NASA Missions Find

Grace Hopper's 1945 article about her program running on the Harvard Mark I

Cylindrical Slide Rules

James Webb Space Telescope Sees Features Astronomers Have Yet to Explain

Star Trek Starship Enterprise Studio Model

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)

UHZ1: NASA telescopes discover record-breaking black hole

Bookkeeping Machines

Ancient Popcorn (2012)

Humans’ Evolutionary Relatives Butchered One Another 1.45 Million Years Ago

Cosmic Harmonies: Sonifications from NASA Telescopes

Timeseries of earthquakes with M = 5 or greater (2011)

Atlas of the Munsell Color System

Jet Automatic Hypodermic Injection Apparatus – Vaccine Gun (2021)

Smithsonian Native Cinema Showcase Brings Indigenous Films to Online Audiences

Smithsonian Open Access-download, share, and reuse Smithsonian’s images

The B-29's automated central fire control system (1945)

Movement, Behavior, and Habitat Use of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in the Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean

A new global study of Indigenous oyster fisheries shows that oyster fisheries were hugely productive and sustainably managed on a massive scale over hundreds and even thousands of years of intensive harvest

The egg carton traces its origins to the early 20th century

Sweat bees have been found to navigate through dark tropical forests by using overhead canopy patterns - the first report of dorsal navigation in an insect

America’s First Direct Mail Campaign

Oral History Interview with Gordon Bell (1995)

Protecting Buildings: A Late 19th Century Alarm System

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