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How the Imperial War Museum became the reluctant owner of an official Nazi portrait of Adolf Hitler
The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937 ...
Trump can’t attack the Department of Education and expect to dominate China
China graduates almost twice as many STEM-oriented Ph.D.s in science and technology programs than the U.S. does.
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A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry
"That these race labels gloss over both of these important pieces of information is a big loss of specificity and also poses a very real danger to the weaponization of science for political means." ...
From ecology to the occult: the dark secrets of Led Zeppelin IV
This feature originally appeared on the Classic Rock website in August 2018. In 2023, the rustic character on the cover of ...
The Diamondback3d
UMD leaders promote technology, innovation at World Quantum Day celebration
The celebration featured an interview with a physics Nobel Laureate and a look at this university’s quantum and arts project ...
Smithsonian Magazine27d
Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
This 12th-century manuscript includes a self-portrait of a female scribe named ... But women played an important role in this work, too, according to a new study published this month in the ...
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After 30-Year Search, Scientists Finally Find an Aurora on Neptune
The planet’s elusive aurorae are much colder than expected, which is how they evaded detection for so long.
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Rachel Ruysch’s Impossible Still Lifes Outsold Rembrandt—Now They Star in a Major Museum Show
A new exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art puts 17th-century artist phenom Rachel Ruysch back in the spotlight.