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How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…

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The Hope Diamond: The 'cursed' blue gemstone coveted by royalty

One of the most desired gems in the world is believed to be cursed. But what is the Hope Diamond's history, value and worth?

LiveScience

The Heist

A Texas Christian University professor and students probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the 2001 thefts of dozens of artifacts.

Texas Observer

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Two giant pandas from China to arrive at US National Zoo

Bao Li and Qing Bao will be the first pandas to reside at the Smithsonian zoo in Washington DC since last fall

The Guardian - US

Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war

Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln

The Guardian - US

Historic space-baked cookie lands in the Smithsonian

It's been four years since it was made, but if you could smell it, you'd find it still retains the whiff of a DoubleTree Cookie. The first food item baked in space is now at the Smithsonian.

Space

Why is NASA creating a standard time for the moon? | Explained

White House directs NASA to establish Coordinated Lunar Time for cislunar operations, boosting space situational awareness and navigation.

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Boeing drone dressed as 'Star Wars' X-wing lands at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

A Boeing CV2 Cargo Air Vehicle dressed like a "Star Wars" X-wing fighter has been donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

Space

Trump Allies Plan to Amend Civil Rights Laws, Focusing on 'Anti-White Racism'

Media report describes efforts where the Justice Department would push to eliminate or change programs focused on discrimination against people of color

Latin Times

Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino Settles Lawsuit Over Hispanic-Focused Internship

The Smithsonian now states that a Latino-focused internship is available to all students regardless of race.

Latin Times

'Kermit the Frog' creature that lived 270 million years ago looked like a 'stout salamander' with 'cartoonish' grin

Scientists found the ancient amphibian fossil in the collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

LiveScience

The idea of a national African American museum went back 100 years before its opening

The museum celebrated the 20th anniversary of legislation that funded it this week, but it can trace its origins back to Black veterans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War.

WEKU

NASA donates Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prototype to Smithsonian

The Smithsonian would love to display the first vehicle to achieve powered flight on another world, but with Ingenuity still busy on Mars, the institution has accepted the next best thing.

Space

Congress presses Smithsonian director on new museums, ‘panda diplomacy’

“We would like to have the pandas back,” Lonnie Bunch III, who leads the Smithsonian Institution, told the House Administration Committee.

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The Guardian - UK

Exit from Edinburgh zoo may signal end to era of China’s panda diplomacy

Beijing’s strained relations with the west are less easily mollified by loans of cuddly endangered bears

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Brittany Higgins cross-examination continues; Smithsonian returns Indigenous remains; and first LGBTQ+ couple legally weds in south Asia

Higgins says she wore white pencil dress at Liberal party function after the alleged rape because she was ‘trying to reclaim it’

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NASA reveals 1st sample collected from potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu to public — and it may contain the seeds of life

The sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

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WEKU

Latina journalists shine in a Smithsonian exhibit

Historically, trust in Spanish-language television news is what keeps the Latinx communities in the United States tuned into the news.

WEKU

A government shutdown could cut short the National Zoo's panda goodbye celebrations

Through the rest of the month, the zoo is inviting the public to commemorate the departure of the three giant pandas who will return to China in December. A shutdown could kill the party's finale.

The Independent UK

Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans

The science of human evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and it’s painting a new picture of our origins

The Guardian - US

Amazon driver in serious condition after rattlesnake bite in Florida

Driver was delivering package to Palm City home when she was bitten by an eastern diamondback rattlesnake near the front door

Inverse

Bethesda Founder Christopher Weaver Is Racing to Protect Video Game History

From creating Elder Scrolls to preserving the origins of the industry, Christopher Weaver reflects on his career in video games — and what comes next.

WEKU

A landmark study opens a new possible way for Black Americans to trace their ancestry

Researchers have compared the DNA of 27 Black people who lived at the Catoctin furnace between 1774 and 1850, finding a link between these enslaved Americans and nearly 42,000 living relatives.

Space

1st Barbie dolls to fly into space make their debut at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum debuted the first Barbie dolls to fly in space. They appear to be like all of the other Barbie "Space Discovery" dolls found in stores, and that may be the point.

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