Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin's symbol of death and division has been turned into a ...

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The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people ...

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Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has produced two ...

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Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...