An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens | Smithsonian
2021年2月2日 · 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 ...
These Are the 100 Greatest Films of All Time, According to 1,600 ...
2022年12月6日 · 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 ...
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.
Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground 'Anomaly' …
2024年5月14日 · Scientists Are Investigating a Puzzling Underground ‘Anomaly’ Near the Giza Pyramids. Using remote-sensing technologies, researchers have discovered two connected structures in a previously ...
NASA Pushes Back America's Return to the Moon to 2027, With …
2024年12月6日 · The delays were announced after an investigation into the performance of the Orion crew capsule’s heat shield as the spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere during the 2022 Artemis 1 unmanned ...
DNA Suggests Modern Humans Emerged From Several Groups in …
2023年5月25日 · 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 ...
A Brief History of the Harmonica | Smithsonian
Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the sheng, a Chinese instrument featuring a bundle of bamboo tubes attached to a curving pipe.The instrument contains a free reed, a strip of ...
Astronauts Stranded in Space Are Now One Step Closer to …
2024年10月1日 · Nelson’s mention of “changing circumstances” likely refers to the fact that NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov should have been accompanied by astronauts Zena ...