Allied soldiers rescued the portrait and other works from Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle in 1945. Bettmann via Getty Images In an iconic 1945 photograph, four American soldiers stand on the steps of a German castle while holding three precious paintings. The […]
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Barnes Neville Wallis. Early life and education Wallis’s early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles Wallis, was a doctor, but young Barnes developed an early fascination with mechanical objects, much to his father’s
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Cloned black-footed ferret Antonia’s kits at three weeks old, on July 9, 2024. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Public Domain In a victory for conservation, a cloned endangered animal has birthed healthy offspring for the first time in
I’m proud to announce that our new Boston Tea Party 250th anniversary print will be the first in a series of limited edition prints marking key points in the formation of our country 250 years ago. Each will be an
Primordial black holes (PBHs), which are thought to have formed right after the Big Bang, may be heating up and exploding throughout the universe. These black hole explosions, powered by Hawking radiation — a quantum process where black holes generate
