Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America(smithsonianmag.com)

36 points by noleary 1 year ago | 37 comments

Ancient Maya city was hidden in the jungle for more than 1k years(smithsonianmag.com)

111 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 22 comments

Intact Giant Panda Skeleton Discovered in Chinese Emperor’s 2k-Year-Old Tomb(smithsonianmag.com)

40 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 1 comments

Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)(smithsonianmag.com)

223 points by foxtacles 3 years ago | 135 comments

Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain(smithsonianmag.com)

201 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 91 comments

Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan(smithsonianmag.com)

225 points by CoopaTroopa 1 year ago | 105 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age(smithsonianmag.com)

139 points by Hooke 18 days ago | 55 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on how archaeologists reconstruct perishable Stone Age fiber technologies like rope, thread and twine from the traces they left.

China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990(e360.yale.edu)

611 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 527 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting that China has added forest area roughly the size of Texas since 1990.

New York City should carefully measure a new tree(blog.willmeye.rs)

69 points by willmeyers 23 days ago | 13 comments

Blog post arguing New York City should measure new candidate trees, since its tallest carefully measured tree, the Queens Giant, was last measured in 2004.

America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it(lawfaremedia.org)

152 points by speckx 11 days ago | 73 comments

Lawfare article arguing the US sold off its rare earth industry and that financing to rebuild domestic supply should reflect China's strategic control risk.

Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years(smithsonianmag.com)

389 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 215 comments

Smithsonian Magazine news article on research finding seaweed and aquatic plant biomarkers in ancient European dental plaque, showing millennia of seaweed eating.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.