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After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

What is included in the Smithsonian magazine digital edition? The Smithsonian magazine digital edition includes all the editorial content and photos from the current print issue of Smithsonian ...

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Flight of the Pongsats JP Aerospace flights rely primarily on volunteers and helium. A team will take a tray of PongSat experiments out to the desert, attach it to a helium balloon, and launch it ...

After discovering the ancient artwork in a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece, the man surrendered it to the police. Authorities are analyzing the statue and investigating why it was abandoned ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

Sara Hashemi is a science writer and fact-checker currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Sierra, The Body ...