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344 points by sohkamyung | 87 comments
Smithsonian Magazine article on how removing small, often obsolete dams in northeastern US streams and rivers is helping herring and other fish return.
139 points by Hooke | 55 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on how archaeologists reconstruct perishable Stone Age fiber technologies like rope, thread and twine from the traces they left.
43 points by benbreen | 21 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on research suggesting Elizabeth I's male secretaries revised and intensified emotion in her letters to figures like Mary, Queen of Scots.
498 points by dryadin | 489 comments
Smithsonian Magazine news article about a new statue attributed to Banksy, a suited man blinded by a flag walking off a ledge, installed overnight in central London.
379 points by 1659447091 | 64 comments
Smithsonian article about a truck driver who spent 20 years building a 1,350-square-foot scale model of every building in New York City, now on museum display.
864 points by bookofjoe | 184 comments
Smithsonian magazine article about 14-year-old Miles Wu, whose Miura-ori origami variant holds 10,000 times its weight, aimed at emergency shelter design.
454 points by sampo | 146 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on Iberian harvester ant queens that lay eggs hatching into both their own species and builder harvester ants, seemingly by cloning males.
437 points by chrononaut | 77 comments
Smithsonian article on CCTV footage from Myanmar's March earthquake showing the first video of a fault in motion, revealing a curved slip path.
319 points by arbesman | 188 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on the history of the children's TV series Reading Rainbow, created to combat summer reading slumps and bridge the literacy gap.
319 points by divbzero | 138 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on the James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet discovery via direct imaging, made by blocking the host star's glare.
333 points by instagraham | 276 comments
Smithsonian Magazine Smart News article on a JWST-based study finding most distant galaxies rotate clockwise, with possible explanations including a black-hole universe.
385 points by Hooke | 162 comments
Smithsonian Magazine article profiling physician Alice Hamilton and her campaign against workplace hazards and the widespread use of toxic lead.
121 points by areoform | 61 comments
477 points by Brajeshwar | 125 comments
Smithsonian Magazine Smart News article presenting four new highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun's entire surface, each made of 25 combined shots.
454 points by elsewhen | 248 comments
Smithsonian Magazine news article on Voyager 1 resuming contact with NASA using a backup radio transmitter unused since 1981.
