An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens | Smithsonian
Feb 2, 2021 · These five skulls, which range from an approximately 2.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus on the left to an approximately 4,800-year-old Homo sapiens on the right, show changes in the ...
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These Are the 100 Greatest Films of All Time, According to 1,600 ...
Dec 6, 2022 · According to a group of film critics, the greatest movie ever made is Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.The 1975 film tops the 2022 results of British magazine Sight and Sound ...
Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground 'Anomaly' …
May 14, 2024 · Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground ‘Anomaly’ Near the Giza Pyramids. Using remote-sensing technologies, researchers have discovered two connected structures in a previously ...
December 2024 - Smithsonian Magazine
The Feminist Behind the Man Behind the Curtain. The untold story of Matilda Gage, the freethinker who inspired her son-in-law L. Frank Baum’s classic novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
DNA Suggests Modern Humans Emerged From Several Groups in …
May 25, 2023 · Past studies of human genetics have proposed the theory that modern humans originated from a single population in Africa. But a new paper, published last week in the journal Nature, put this idea ...
The Curious History of the Potato Chip | Smithsonian
When Covid-19 forced people to stay home, many of us found solace in a snack: potato chips. The crispy treats enjoyed around a $350 million increase in sales from 2019 to 2020. When the chips are ...
The Story of How Humans Came to the Americas Is Constantly …
For more than half a century, the prevailing story of how the first humans came to the Americas went like this: Some 13,000 years ago, small bands of Stone Age hunters walked across a land bridge ...
Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? | Smithsonian
In 1866, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher and former state senator, co-invented an automated machine to number coupons and tickets—a task previously done by hand.
Whistleblower Alleges U.S. Government Is Covering Up Alien Life …
Jul 27, 2023 · The idea of extraterrestrial life has been receiving a lot of hype recently, reports Marina Koren for the Atlantic.A Gallup poll from 2019 found that 68 percent of Americans believe the U.S ...