A new movie plays off the narrative nature of a toy that has been capturing imaginations for 45 years
Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
In a salute to "Christmas Rappin,'" hip-hop chronicler Bill Adler tells the tale of how the famous rap recording came to life
The ecological benefits of animals like leeches, ticks and vampire bats are the focus of a new exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum
The island’s ‘custodian of historic wrecks’ shares his favorite underwater sites for divers to experience
A high rate of tooth turnover gave these prehistoric carnivores an edge
In our efforts to increase and diffuse knowledge, we highly recommend these 65 titles released this year
The list includes Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit, an Abraham Lincoln life mask and a coral skeleton
Reading proved a bedrock in a year that saw a new Smithsonian secretary and celebrations of dinosaurs, Apollo 11 and women's history
A new book, 'Light From the Void,' showcases the telescope’s images of nebulas, supernovae, supermassive black holes and more
In truth, massacres, disease and American Indian tribal politics are what shaped the Pilgrim-Indian alliance at the root of the holiday
By simulating liquid flows around the shells of ammonoids, scientists study how these ancient animals moved
Ann Hodges remains the only human known to have been injured by direct impact of a meteorite
Experience Taiwan's tea culture through these museums, plantations and tea houses
More than eighty years after it was patented, the Crock Pot remains a comforting presence in American kitchens
These titles are bound to satisfy your cravings for delicious dishes and food knowledge
Confectionary artworks span everything from an Aztec calendar stone to King Tut's tomb
Beyond Dinosaurs: The Secrets of Earth's Past
Smithsonian paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues tells the tale of a fossil find that bedeviled early 20th-century researchers
Urbanization and the spread of artificial light are transforming all of earth's species, bringing about a host of unintended consequences
Stretch young learners’ minds with everything from card games to robotic spheres
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