Smithsonian magazine editor Michael Caruso is among the 400 influencers asked to protect and save the "Endangered Song"
These weedy pests should be on your next dinner plate
Corals are not expected to do well with climate change. But the ability to adapt to warmer oceans could give them more time
To protect themselves from unwanted advances, city women protected themselves with some sharp accessories
After a two-year run on Broadway, the web-slinging stage show's iconic superhero costume is heading to the Smithsonian.
A simple culinary technique may go a long way toward ridding the world of excess plastic waste.
Instead of responding to the smell of a relative’s death as the sign that a predator could be about, hermit crabs interpret this cue as fresh dinner
There are still lessons to be learned from the visionary businessman who built a city
We can all be Marty McFly thanks to a new tool in Google Street View that offers seven years of views from street corners around the globe
For his new book, Dan Falk followed a group of scholars who argue, unlike most, that the playwright was up to speed with the latest astronomy
Forget carbon-neutral—Honda and the University of California have built a house that claims to give energy back
The actor whose leading roles in “Star Trek” and X-Men have taken him into the far future, reflects on where present-day society is headed
A painter looks at her canvas from a new perspective
The literary genre isn’t meant to predict the future, but implausible ideas that fire inventors’ imaginations often, amazingly, come true
With its stubby cylindrical body and playful whistles and beeps, the lovable Star Wars’ robot R2-D2 is just the right mix of man and machine
The painter gave his sibling Nan a makeover in his alluring portrait of her
The most futuristic medical treatment ever imagined is now a reality
The fantastic tricorder device that “Bones” used to scan aliens on “Star Trek” is nearly at hand—in your cellphone
Humans have damaged the world’s forests, but not irreparably
On the University of Maryland campus, a giant whirligig tries to predict the planet’s next big flip
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