Want to be dazzled by Mother Nature’s fall foliage display? Just hop in the car.
A new Archives of American Art exhibition looks at how artists documented their lives before social media
Photojournalist Randall Hyman journeys north to Tromsø, Norway, in search of the northern lights
A diversity of coral guard-crabs is needed to fend off attacks by hungry snails and giant spiky sea stars
New measurements revealed the world's largest cave, which is unfortunately off-limits. But what are some other impressive underworlds open for visitors?
In a new book, Steven Johnson describes the many technologies that glass, refrigeration and other fundamental inventions have made possible
Smithsonian geographer Doug Herman proposes a return to sustainable solutions, based on the path laid by Indigenous peoples for millennia
National Portrait Gallery historian David Ward writes a new ode for the Anthropocene
The director of the Smithsonian Latino Center weighs in on the disproportionate burden that climate change brings to Latino populations
Evidence is building that past climate change may have forged some of the defining traits of humanity
A system being developed in Finland would allow people to subscribe to all kinds of mobility options and pay for everything on their phones
Researchers are developing transparent solar collectors that let sunlight in, while turning ultraviolet and near-infrared light into electricity
Artist Erik Hagen considers the remnants of modern human life that may be found in rock strata millions of years from now
From Los Angeles to Lagos, see how megacities have been taking over the planet during the past 100 years
From deep holes to flying sheep, some signs of human activity might really perplex geologists in the far future
We are living in the Anthropocene. But no one can agree when it started or how human activity will be preserved
Explore key moments in Earth’s transformative history as continents drift and climate fluctuates over 4.6 billion years
Researchers at Rice University have created pixels 40 times smaller than those found in today's LCD displays
To create the National Portrait Gallery's "facescape," artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada got some high-tech help
Driven to extinction by overhunting, the world's last Pinta Island tortoise is now a taxidermy display at New York's American Museum of Natural History
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