Material pulled from ceramic sherds reveals the favored foodstuffs in the 8,000-year-old city of Çatalhöyük in Turkey
Award-winning filmmakers, Smithsonian folklorist Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, explore impact of craft in <em>Good Work</em>, airing now on PBS
Visitors might be inconvenienced, but the much-loved Washington, D.C. museum is undergoing a massive revitalization
In an unpublished excerpt from her new book <i>The Poison Squad</i>, Deborah Blum chronicles the public health campaign against tainted dairy products
The Big Four Mapping Project's conservation tool helps prevent snakebites and the killing of common venomous species
1,000 singers from around the city will descend on the popular park to showcase the stories of New Yorkers
Nearly 400 years after the alleged “sale of Manhattan,” some Lenape strive to reawaken their cultural heritage on the islands where their ancestors thrived
The board game <i>hnefatafl</i>, commonly called Viking chess, pits an attacking player against another trying to defend the king
The racist sculpture's end comes at a “tipping point for the politics of Native American memory,” says the director of the American Indian Museum
Scientists say it could help pinpoint the best time to take medicine, and also predict disease risk
In a just-released Smithsonian Book, author Samme Chittum assesses the Concorde’s demise with the keen eye of a crime reporter
The 450,000-year-old teeth, discovered on the Italian Peninsula, are helping anthropologists piece together the hominid family tree
Targeting the immune system to fight cancer could be the first step to defeating the disease
Celebrating the October 1958 publication of <em>A Bear Called Paddington,</em> Smithsonian Libraries takes a look at several pop-up books
William Dudley Pelley and his Silver Shirts were just one of many Nazi-sympathizers operating in the United States in the 1930s
With enough turbines, the rainfall from Hurricane Harvey could have been reduced by 20 percent, according to a new study
A bioengineer collaborates with artists, clinicians and patients to come up with an art exhibition with heart
A new minor planet called "the Goblin" is the second most distant known object in the solar system
Cubs born to Sukiri on September 22 are latest in the National Zoo’s efforts to diversify gene pool of captive born cheetahs
Life-size and hyper-detailed, these anatomical mosaics draw on ancient inspiration
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