New research suggests that one of the state’s greatest historians had a hand in perpetrating an infamous hoax
For this species, a beak is everything and Karl has had his old one re-tooled for hunting and communication
Researchers are developing 'hybrid biological microrobots' to target cancer and do other work in the body
Drinking vessels found in Bronze and Iron Age children's graves contained proteins from animal milk
The Unforgotten: New Voices of the Holocaust
Hidden for 70 years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature—the diary of Renia Spiegel—was rediscovered inside a desk in New York
Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
With screws and bolts placed between its strings, the 'prepared piano' offers up a wide range of sounds
Museum staff discuss the reception of a difficult work that showed the vivid and painful documentation of a Nazi death camp
These museums and companies around the country pair the public with paleontologists to uncover buried bones
Bunch’s new memoir details the tireless work it took to build NMAAHC and offers insights into his priorities as Smithsonian Secretary
In 1933, Burmah White was punished harshly—and amidst a media frenzy—after she and her husband committed a spree of crimes in Los Angeles
Long before online quizzes and Myers-Briggs, Robert Woodworth’s “Psychoneurotic Inventory” tried to assess recruits' susceptibility to shell shock
The "world’s most honored woman astrophysicist" worked tirelessly for decades to measure the makeup of the sun and the stars
As the 2019 recipient of the Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal, the musician divulged he still has one more song to write
A Norwegian 'urchin ranching' company wants to take the echinoderms from the wild, fatten them up and sell them to restaurants
The metallurgist came to the Roanoke settlement looking for raw materials to support the English war effort
The staggering population loss of 29 percent of North American birds could signal an ecological crisis
By mapping gene expressions, researchers can determine some anatomical features of our distant hominin relatives
An exclusive excerpt from the Smithsonian Secretary’s new book, ‘A Fool’s Errand’
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