Lab experiments suggest that a strange synchronization of pendulum clocks observed in the 1600s can be chalked up to acoustic energy
Even today you can visit the site where groups such as R.E.M. found a true artistic genius
Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Inca Road
Chile's northern coast offers an ideal star-gazing environment with its lack of precipitation, clear skies and low-to-zero light pollution
Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Inca Road
To journey here is to roam through almost six thousand years of civilization, to one of the places where the human enterprise began
Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Inca Road
Native to northern Peru and southern Ecuador, this tiny and rapidly vanishing tomato boasts outsized influence on world gastronomy
The popular belief that boas and other constricting snakes deal death by suffocation seems to be a flawed assumption
Nine months in, a family of four adjusts to life in the Honda Smart Home, a testing ground for new technologies at University of California, Davis
Forty years after the war's end, twice as many vets with combat-related PTSD are getting worse as those who are improving
This week's Generation Anthropocene reveals how seeds on ice and poisonous tubers may offer hope for food security
Visitors to the Smithsonian's new Spark!Lab are challenged to solve problems with ingenuity and a pile of off-the-shelf items
With a patent to her name and more likely on the way, the 15-year-old has made it her mission to inspire young innovators
The new genetic analysis takes aim at the theory that just one founding group settled the Americas
The switch from coal to natural gas played only a small role in the recent carbon dioxide decline
Pat Oliphant's searing sketches cross party lines. But the portraits are all in good clean fun...or are they?
Monkeys and rats hooked up as "brainets" may lead to innovative treatments for Parkinson's, paralysis and more
On the 46th anniversary of the historic moonwalk, the spacesuit that made it possible is headed to the conservation lab
Muslims mark the end of Ramadan with food, festivities, gifts and prayers
Spanning the full 9.5 years of the mission to date, the images by Michael Soluri capture the people behind the epic close encounter
Education, housing costs and even internet access are all a part of the difficult public policy matter
Those that survive today are a testament to Old World luxury
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