Technology & Innovation
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Frederic Church in Jamaica centers on the artist’s rarely exhibited sketches from his 1865 travels, presented within their historical context. The works document Jamaica’s plant life and landscapes in detailed observational studies.
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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At Home in Space presents the challenges and benefits of a permanent human presence in low Earth orbit. The knowledge gained from the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs informs where we go next and what we do there. The ability to launch,. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
National Air and Space Museum
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Even though the brain structures of birds and mammals are different, a new study suggests that crows and primates have similar decision-making nerve cell circuitry.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 19 “superbugs” that currently pose a threat to human health in the United States, plus another six that are being monitored as potential threats.
At the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, surround yourself with the planes and spacecraft that set records, charted new courses, and made history.
Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in our Universe, containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, enormous reservoirs of hot gas visible in X-rays, and large amounts of dark matter. But clusters are not quiet places.
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) spend half their waking time conducting scientific experiments.
Decades of experience have shown that humans can live in space for months at a time. But living in space is no simple feat.