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Chanel and Power Station of Art Open Mainland China's First Public Library Dedicated to Contemporary Art Chanel has announced the public opening of Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China's first public library dedicated to contemporary art, at S...
Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses will be available in India starting December 1, introducing a new category of performance-focused AI eyewear created for athletes, sports enthusiasts, and everyday champions. The collection will be available for pre-sale o...
Why Don't All Volcanoes Erupt Explosively? New research has provided a new explanation for why some volcanoes don't explode despite having highly explosive magma with high gas content. The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many...
A Drawing Said to Be by Michelangelo Will Go to Auction A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475–1564), will be offered for sale at Christie's auction house in New York in February. Christie's estimates the w...
A new Doctoral Network led by Tampere University has received €4.4 million from the European Union's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. Through the High-Power Optical Vortices (HiPOVor) initiative, 15 doctoral researchers will be trained ...
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Voyager 1 Nears One Light-Day from Earth Voyager 1 is one of humanity's most remarkable technological achievements. Over nearly half a century, the probe has explored the gas giant Saturn, passed the threshold for interstellar space, and continua...
To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless NASA astronauts have described feeling awed by the astonishing sight and a profound shift ...
Reconstructing Theia's Makeup A new study in Science identifies the most likely chemical composition of Theia, the ancient planetary body that collided with early Earth. Theia's reconstructed composition points to an origin in the inner Solar S...
AutoFlight's new system combines a "zero-carbon water vertiport" with eVTOL aircraft to expand air mobility across large water areas. By tackling challenges like limited site options, slow infrastructure deployment, and complex take-off and landing p...
Supernovas are the largest explosions humans have ever observed. They can occur when massive stars run out of fuel and die, shining extremely bright and sometimes leaving behind a mysterious black hole. Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated ...
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5,000-year-old 'Slag' Reveals Earliest Metal Working Processes with CT Scanning Method MIT researchers have discovered a new way to uncover how the earliest civilizations worked with metals using CT scans to analyze ancient "slag" samples. Metal...
A team of engineers from Northwestern University has developed a new bandage-like finger wearable called VoxeLite that aims to add physical sensations of touch and feel to digital experiences. The ultrathin haptic device wraps around a user's finger...
World's First Super Magnet Breakthrough Could Unlock Commercial Nuclear Fusion Power UK-based Tokamak Energy has recorded a significant breakthrough in the development of clean energy by successfully replicating fusion power plant fields within i...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy, NGC 2775, that's hard to categorize. The galaxy lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that is devoid of gas...
Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don't know why we do it :focal(3000x2000:3001x2001)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/ff/14/ff...
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Nearly 1,250 middle and high school students from 71 schools around the world joined Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for the Growing Beyond Earth (GBE) Student Launch Chat with the Scientists, marking an inspiring milestone in the program's 10th an...
Ensuring Balanced Chromosome Segregation Researchers have uncovered how successful chromosome segregation during sexual reproduction is achieved in plants. The discovery, by scientists led by the University of Leicester, could be beneficial for b...
Astronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are relatively protected from the harsh radiation of deep space, thanks to the Earth's magnetic field. However, as future astronauts venture deeper into space, they will face more perilou...
Blistering suns, endless dunes and almost no water. This is the imagined world on the planet Tatooine in Star Wars. Here, survival depends upon towering vaporators that loom over the sand, drawing in air and condensing its moisture into life-giving w...
Hubble Seeks Clusters in 'Lost Galaxy' This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely...
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What Triggered Santorini's 'Earthquake Swarm' In early 2025, the Greek islands of Santorini, Amorgos, and Anafi experienced a "swarm" of over 25,000 earthquakes, many over magnitude 5.0 and felt by locals. Scientists have now discovered the cause...
The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is a remarkable natural wonder, with its vibrant colors and diverse microbial life. Scientists are studying these extremophiles, or organisms that thrive in extreme environments, to better under...
Sodium may be the underdog of battery chemistry, but new research shows it could soon punch far above its weight. As global demand for energy storage from electric vehicles to resilient power grids explodes, scientists are pushing hard to develop alt...
As the Trump administration deploys Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Charlotte, North Carolina, residents are fighting back. Over the past few days, ICE has made over 250 arrests in the area, leading to an estimated 56,000 student ...
Light's Magnetic Secret Revealed Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday Effect, overturning a 180-year belief that only light's electric field was invol...
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NASA Captures Close-Up Images of Interstellar Comet On Wednesday, NASA released detailed photographs of the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas as it made a brief pass through our solar system. Discovered over the summer, 3I/Atlas is only the third confi...
Meta is proud to build cutting-edge, wearable technology that empowers people with disabilities to perform daily tasks with more independence. Their AI glasses – Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta Vanguard, and Meta Ray-Ban Display – allow for hands-free supp...
Millions of people around the world lack access to clean potable water, a problem that is only getting worse with rising temperatures and a growing population. Yet, the atmosphere contains six times more water than all the fresh water in rivers, acco...
The performance of "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" took place a few days before the band played its first show in Australia in a decade :focal(3875x2583:3876x2584)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/...
Quantum Computers Simulate Complex Physics Scientists study matter under extreme conditions to uncover fundamental behaviors. The Standard Model of particle physics contains the equations needed to describe these phenomena, but in many real situa...
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Scientists Gene-Edit Fungus into Protein-Packed, Meat-Like Food Using 70% Less Land Researchers in China have unveiled a modified fungus that not only tastes like meat but also cuts production environmental impact by 61%. The Jiangnan University...
Today, NASA released the most detailed images yet of 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object observed in our solar system. During a press conference on November 19, NASA confirmed the icy rock poses no danger to Earth, and contrary to certain c...
An enormous analysis of data from a broad array of participants found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging :focal(750x500:751x501)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/68/0a/680aee75-c50d-4910...
New Tactile Patch Turns Flat Screens into Lifelike Textures Northwestern University engineers have developed the first haptic device that matches human resolution in touch. The ultra-thin wearable, called VoxeLite, recreates tactile sensations wi...
Dog Mom Reads Fake Letter Loaded with Pup's Favorite Words For pet parents, there are dozens of universally adorable situations. When your cat cozies up in your lap and starts "making biscuits," you will likely react with an almost-involuntary "a...
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Meta has announced the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to their Segment Anything Collection. These advancements will help build the next generation of creative media tools, simplifying video editing and offering new ways to interact...
Robert Therrien's World of Everyday Wonder Emerges in a LA Retrospective When Robert Therrien passed away in 2019 at 71, he left behind a series of small note cards, each bearing a labeled line drawing. To those closest to him, they felt like leg...
When it comes to mating, female mosquitoes call the shots, researchers report. A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life. With the stakes so high, it would make sense for these ins...
Google's New Gemini 3 Offers Versatile "Vibe-Coding" Responses Google has unveiled a major upgrade to its flagship multimodal model, Gemini 3. The new model boasts improved reasoning capabilities, more fluid multimodal functionality across voice,...
Anchorage-dependent cells require physical attachment to a solid surface, such as a culture dish, to survive, grow, and reproduce. In the biomedical industry and others, culturing these cells is crucial, but current techniques used to separate them f...