Technology & Innovation
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One in every three bites of food you eat depends on pollinators! Our Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Digitization Program Office are digitizing 325,000 insect pollinator specimens with a custom conveyor system.
Heard the buzz? Our Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Digitization Program Office are digitizing 325,000 insect pollinator specimens with a custom conveyor system.
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In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now landed on a better one. Why didn’t humans get there first?
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The first three missions are targeted to launch this year. They’ll involve lunar landers developed by several aerospace companies, including Blue Origin, and deliver scientific instruments and a rover.
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Although the researchers did not create an entire cell that could function without a crucial building block, the findings represent a big step in synthetic biology and provide a glimpse at how Earth’s earliest organisms may have lived.
The United States will turn 250 this July 4th, and the ways that Americans are celebrating their nation’s birthday are as diverse as the nation itself.
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Natural disasters like the one at Tracy Arm fjord, about 45 miles south of Juneau, could become more common as climate change alters frigid landscapes, according to researchers.
How do people sleep in space? We talk to former astronaut Mike Massimino about his Space Shuttle slumber party experience and the unique challenges of catching Zs in zero-G. This episode originally aired in 2022.