Lake Minnewanka in Alberta was once home to a bustling resort, but today its eerie landscape can only be seen by scuba divers
These rarely played ancient bells are newly analyzed with their acoustics remastered and digitized for a new exhibition at the Sackler Gallery
For its grand reopening, a hub of Asian-American culture serves up a culinary wonderland
A new documentary focuses on the incredible story of Frank Brinton
Film of Sri Lankan site joins popular shrine room as part of three-year exhibition and we finally learn why one Buddha’s hair is blue
Researchers are currently developing biofuels from these abundant species, which require relatively little land, water and fertilizer
Enlightenment philosophers asked the same questions about what makes humans, humans as we see in the cult classic
When the 1989 hurricane devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, Smithsonian folklorists were working on an upcoming Folklife Festival
Why does this pungent delicacy give some the munchies, but send others reeling to the toilet?
A new book considers how sophisticated tracking technology and the data it collects can improve conservation strategies
In <i>Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen</i>, Bill Bentley remembers the singer-guitarist who forged a unique place in American rock
In a number of projects and proposals, architects and urban planners are working with water instead of against it
Blind since he was very young, Daniel Kish is the world's foremost proponent of using vocal clicks to navigate
If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited than it already is
Tribalingual founder Inky Gibbens explains how saving languages is a means of preserving different worldviews
For this groundbreaking artist, greatness was always one more horizon away
They're being designed to tee up end-of-life conversations, prep documents and provide spiritual counseling
As the urgency of climate change becomes tangible to those in the Arctic, federal funds are growing harder to come by
How an innovative protein analysis technique helped solve a decades-old mystery
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