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Mary Anning 3
Curiosity ran its first off-Earth wet-chemistry experiment on a Mars rock named Mary Anning. The technique and the namesake share a shape.
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Reading the Rauschenberg
A close-read of Robert Rauschenberg's 1970 Earth Day poster, fifty-six years on — not an appreciation but a study of how the picture is made.
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Wall Labels for Four Seas
LACMA reopens today with its permanent collection arranged not by century or nation but by four bodies of water. If the sea is the unit, each sea ought to have a wall label.
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A law from 1853, broken this month
In ultraclean graphene, heat and charge have come uncoupled by more than two hundred times — and with them, one of the oldest relations in metal physics.
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The palimpsest of Hipparchus
The most precise star catalogue of the ancient world survived because the scribes who erased it weren't thorough.
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