Writer Simon Winchester explores Stevenson's life and proves why he is still loved today
By turning the ordinary flashlight, spoon or clothespin into a colossal monument, this artist chisels away at society's solemnity
If bacterial life did arise on an Earth-like early Mars, we should be able to find its fossil remains preserved in those red rocks
Plant and the butterflies will come: This summer the Smithsonian's new garden welcomes its winged visitors
On an ordinary April day the weirdness came to town
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A short walk from the uphill end of the Fisherman's Wharf trolley line is a former working-class neighborhood that is the city's new home for the arts
Review of 'Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science'
But it's true. In the mid-1800s Lucien Maxwell, a dauntless former mountain man, ruled a huge chunk of New Mexico and lower Colorado
Sam meddles shamelessly in U.S. politics and carries on with Miss Liberty, but nobody knows for sure exactly where he came from
As part of our 150th-anniversary celebration, we're going to take 150 museum treasures on the road
The Smithsonian Associates have a 'national treasure' in their midst, but shhh, don't tell...
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A sculpture in the Smithsonian collection reveals much about how the Indians of the West were viewed in the early ages of the United States
These tiny prehistoric parasites have evolved a bold array of weapons, the better to torture their hosts
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