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David W. Brown

Smithsonian Magazine

Baton Rouge, LA, United States

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Past:
  • Smithsonian Magazine
  • Mental Floss
  • The Week
  • The Atlantic
  • Business Insider

Past articles by David:

Searching for the Key to Life's Beginnings

From exoplanets to chemical reactions, scientists inch closer to solving the great mystery of how life forms from inanimate matter → Read More

NASA Considers a Rover Mission to Go Cave Diving on the Moon

The deep caverns and pits that dot the lunar surface could hold clues to the moon's history and perhaps provide shelter for future human exploration → Read More

How NASA's Opportunity Rover Made Mars Part of Earth

After more than 15 years exploring the surface of Mars, the Opportunity rover has finally roved its last leg → Read More

10 Facts About the Dwarf Planet Eris

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

11 Things You Might Not Know About the Marine Corps

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

10 Riveting Facts About Mars

Few celestial objects have fascinated humankind throughout history more than the Red Planet. → Read More

11 Riveting Facts About Mars

Few celestial objects have fascinated humankind throughout history more than the Red Planet. Here's what you need to know about Mars. → Read More

5 Goals of the OSIRIS-REx Mission to the Asteroid 'Bennu'

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

The mysterious fourth state of matter

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More

6 big questions about Trump's Space Force

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More

Does America really need a Space Force?

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. → Read More

Look Up! The Lyrid Meteor Shower Arrives Saturday Night

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

10 Facts About the Dwarf Planet Makemake

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10 Facts About the Dwarf Planet Haumea

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Winter Meteors, Valentine's Day Star, and a Black Moon: A Guide to the February Night Sky

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

The Mysterious Origin of Nebraska's "Devil's Corkscrew" Fossils

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

The Secret Cold War History of the Missile That Launched America's First Satellite

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

10 Astonishing Things You Should Know About the Milky Way

Here are a few things you might not know about our spiraling home in the universe. → Read More

9 Compelling Facts About Neptune

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More

'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Could Potentially Support Life (And It Also Has a Neighbor)

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More