Who was the enigmatic Geronimo and what is his place in our history?
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Geronimo in a 1905 Locomobile Model C, taken at the Miller brothers' 101 Ranch located southwest of Ponca City, Oklahoma, June 11, 1905 | Public Domain
Colonizing the Galaxy Is hard, but may be vital. Why not send bacteria instead?Seeding alien worlds with terrestrial life is now being discussed
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Bacteria (Wikipedia)
Japanese immigrants to the United States were deeply familiar with baseball: Japan had embraced it in the late 1800s. During the Meiji Restoration leaders promoted baseball as a way to transform the image of Japan while facilitating international connections.
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Shed light on the interconnections among world cultures.
Study historic and contemporary cultural and artistic heritage, with emphasis on the heritage, arts, indigenous knowledge and expressive systems, and contemporary art and design.
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Deepen our understanding of significant global political and historic patterns and events and their impact on humanity and the planet.
Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience
Conduct research on historical migrations and diasporas to and within America and on the contemporary movements of people, art, artifacts, and cultural expressions that connect various world cultures to the American experience.
Use material culture and documentary collections to research and interpret national milestones and achievements; American life and national identity, cultural expression, the environment and changing landscape, and achievements in science and technology; political and military struggles; economic, scientific, technological, and cultural innovations; and artists and leaders that have defined the United States and the character of its people.
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A team from Japan’s Waseda University in 1916 (Library of Congress)
We’re Still Not Prepared for Global Warming.
It’s hot, but it may not be the new normal yet. Temperatures are still rising.
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Understand how species interactions, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diseases, environmental contaminants, and invasions of exotic species affect the survival of species and the functioning of ecosystems.
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Paolo Soleri’s radical experiment in urban planning has been running in the middle of the Arizona desert for nearly 50 years.
What can we learn from his vision to help us confront challenges to the planet?
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Understand how species interactions, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diseases, environmental contaminants, and invasions of exotic species affect the survival of species and the functioning of ecosystems.
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Do you live near toxic waste? Check the list of the 1,317 of the Most Polluted Spots in the U.S.
Why are they where they are? What can we do about them?
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Develop concepts, theories, tools, and models that contribute directly to halting biodiversity loss, managing species and their habitats, restoring ecosystems, and mitigating threats to the environment.
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One of the most celebrated and widely viewed paintings of the nineteenth century --actually what was called a " Cyclorama"-- almost didn’t survive into the twentieth. The installation provoked an intense, extended and emotional revisiting of America's recent Civil War. Frenchman Paul Philippoteaux's The Battle of Gettysburg, a vast canvas with a vast audience—hundreds of thousands had once flocked to see it—was found by a Boston Globe reporter fifteen years later, moldering in a shed at the back of a vacant lot.
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Use material culture and documentary collections to research and interpret national milestones and achievements; American life and national identity, cultural expression, the environment and changing landscape, and achievements in science and technology; political and military struggles; economic, scientific, technological, and cultural innovations; and artists and leaders that have defined the United States and the character of its people.
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Detail of the cyclorama from National Park Service
There are a slew of Earth Science missions that NASA has planned for the future. We need all of them (and more) for a thriving planet.
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Increase knowledge of the evolutionary and ecological history of species and ecosystems, and the processes responsible for population declines and extinction.
Grand Challenge: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe
· Understand the formation, geological diversity, and dynamics of the Earth, the Moon, and other rocky bodies in our solar system.
Understand how stellar processes change clouds of gas and dust into stars and planets, including the Earth, and how life emerged here and perhaps elsewhere.
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Hydroponics is a modern technology with roots in the origin of the Earth.
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The Tribes of Tanzania: As safari parks encroach on their ancestral lands, indigenous groups struggle to maintain their ways of life.
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Photo Credit: Christopher Wilson
Bill Morrison’s masterpiece of found footage, explores a moment in American history that brought on huge social, demographic and environmental changes.
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Did planets like Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury form dry out of the dust and heat of the inner solar system, only to be drenched in water delivered from ice-laden comets later on? Or did drier asteroids and asteroid collisions bring the wet stuff?
To really understand how this water delivery system works, you need to watch it happen. But meteorite strikes are notoriously unpredictable, so researchers decided to create their own with the help of a super-sized gun at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe
Understand how stellar processes change clouds of gas and dust into stars and planets, including the Earth, and how life emerged here and perhaps elsewhere.
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An artist's impression of an asteroid collision in space. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Some hybrid thrushes varied their routes, suggesting that different genes may influence fall and spring migration
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Improve understanding of and access to the biology and natural history of species.
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Photo Credit: Charles Floyd
What a 19th-century rebellion against automation can teach us.
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Valuing World Cultures
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InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe
Understand the formation, geological diversity, and dynamics of the Earth, the Moon, and other rocky bodies in our solar system.
Understand how stellar processes change clouds of gas and dust into stars and planets, including the Earth, and how life emerged here and perhaps elsewhere.
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On an island in Florida, a rare wild rodent faces a dangerous feline threat
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Develop concepts, theories, tools, and models that contribute directly to halting biodiversity loss, managing species and their habitats, restoring ecosystems, and mitigating threats to the environment.
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A 2,000 year-old Gladiator School in Austria brings the arena back to life.
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Valuing World Cultures
Study historic and contemporary cultural and artistic heritage, with particular emphasis on the arts of Asia and Africa, the heritage of the Americas, indigenous knowledge and expressive systems, and modern and contemporary art and design.
Shed light on the interconnections among world cultures.
Photo Credit: Reiner Reidler / Anzenberger Agency
Tucked into a rare. almost disintegrated, album’s last page is a previously unknown photo of one of American history’s great figures: abolitionist Harriet Tubman, in what’s believed to be the earliest photo of her in existence.
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Understanding the American Experience
Use material culture and documentary collections to research and interpret national milestones and achievements; American life and national identity, cultural expression, the environment and changing landscape, and achievements in science and technology; political and military struggles; economic, scientific, technological, and cultural innovations; and artists and leaders that have defined the United States and the character of its people.
Photo Credit: Shawn Miller
In this excerpt from his new book Taming the Sun, Varun Sivaram follows the research paths of two rival scientists determined to find a way to wring fuel out of thin air.
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Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
Develop concepts, theories, tools, and models that contribute directly to halting biodiversity loss, managing species and their habitats, restoring ecosystems, and mitigating threats to the environment.
Photo Credit: Santtu Mustonen
Sixty years after the nuclear tests, the groundwater is contaminated and the coconuts are radioactive. But are the coral reefs thriving?
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Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
Increase knowledge of the evolutionary and ecological history of species and ecosystems, and the processes responsible for population declines and extinction.
Understand how species interactions, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diseases, environmental contaminants, and invasions of exotic species affect the survival of species and the functioning of ecosystems.
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NASA Landsat satellite image GeoTIFF archive, http://glovis.usgs.gov
