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		World's Longest Outdoor Escalator – 3k-Feet-Long – Opens in China (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
		World's Longest Outdoor Escalator Opened in China – Takes 20 Minutes to Ascend (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by sarimkx 5 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Astronomer May Have Witnessed a Comet Stop Its Spin–Then Reverse Its Rotation (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by pseudolus 5 days ago \| past \| discuss
		A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC (smithsonianmag.com)
		406 points by 1659447091 6 days ago \| past \| 70 comments
		That Vanished (2010) (smithsonianmag.com)
		5 points by downbad_ 6 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Has there been any significant progress on using AI to talk to animals? (smithsonianmag.com)
		6 points by evolve2k 7 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Caterpillars Vibrate to Complex Rhythms to Communicate with Ants (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by m-hodges 13 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Some People's Brains Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by speckx 16 days ago \| past
		A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by jruohonen 17 days ago \| past
		The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation (smithsonianmag.com)
		115 points by randycupertino 24 days ago \| past \| 59 comments
		French Bees Are Making M&M-Contaminated Blue and Green Honey (2012) (smithsonianmag.com)
		15 points by thunderbong 26 days ago \| past
		Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold (smithsonianmag.com)
		84 points by bookofjoe 27 days ago \| past \| 42 comments
		Ancient Roman Game Board Was a Mystery. AI Was Used to Figure Out How to Play (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by mci 27 days ago \| past
		A Cider-Can 'Camera' Captured Eight Years in a Single Photograph (smithsonianmag.com)
		11 points by thunderbong 27 days ago \| past
		Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning (smithsonianmag.com)
		202 points by 1659447091 28 days ago \| past \| 55 comments
		Sweat of Tourists Has Covered Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Fresco in White Film (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by bookofjoe 32 days ago \| past
		Treetops Emit Ultraviolet Sparkles During Thunderstorms (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by thunderbong 38 days ago \| past
		Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes (smithsonianmag.com)
		24 points by bookofjoe 39 days ago \| past \| 10 comments
		Researchers Retrieve the Deepest-Ever Rock Core from Beneath Antarctica's Ice (smithsonianmag.com)
		1 point by Brajeshwar 46 days ago \| past
		Study Suggests Women Have Autism Just as Often, but Are Diagnosed Later in Life (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by ulrischa 51 days ago \| past
		Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants (smithsonianmag.com)
		118 points by bryanrasmussen 51 days ago \| past \| 33 comments
		Why Do Humans Have Chins? They Might Be an Evolutionary Accident (smithsonianmag.com)
		3 points by ulrischa 52 days ago \| past
		The origin of DayGlo paint (smithsonianmag.com)
		1 point by bookofjoe 52 days ago \| past
		Unlock an Ancient Ability in Dogs (smithsonianmag.com)
		1 point by galaxyLogic 53 days ago \| past
		14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
		928 points by bookofjoe 54 days ago \| past \| 202 comments
		Dinosaur National Monument Construction Work Turns Up New Fossils (smithsonianmag.com)
		5 points by bryanrasmussen 56 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters (smithsonianmag.com)
		4 points by Tomte 57 days ago \| past
		Archaeologists Identify Traces of 2k-Year-Old Pompeii Love Note (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by stevenjgarner 58 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		When Human Activity Dropped During Covid-19 Methane Emissions Spiked (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by stevenjgarner 58 days ago \| past
		A French Region Safeguarded the Louvre's Treasures During World War II (smithsonianmag.com)
		2 points by Brajeshwar 58 days ago \| past
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