Articles

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Wham! Pow! Comics-inspired Art at Museum of American Indian

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An Early Theropod Leaves an Impression on Scientists

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Watch a Top Chef Cook Geoduck

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Unexpected Considerations for the Home Funeral

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Women of Science on the Smithsonian Channel

Komodo dragon

Komodo Dragons: Cute, Deadly or Both?

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The Dinosaur Name Game

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Lessons in School Lunch

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An Elephant Shrew, Born at the Zoo, is Caught on Film

The elephant-shrew looks like a mouse designed by a committee. It's got a trunk like a pachyderm, the tail of a kangaroo and an anteater's tongue

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Tracking Dinosaurs in New Jersey

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Smithsonian Events Week of 3/2-3/6/09: Kiwis, Kites and Bendy Straws

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Where Our Food Comes From

A vegetable garden and less bottled water can help turn the White House "green."

Energy Efficiency at the White House

How environmental change can begin at the president's home

GRAND PRIZE WINNER In the early morning, fishermen clean their nets by Erhai Lake Yunnan, China • Photographed October 2008 Ensing and the Chinese fishermen he shot that day did not share a common tongue, but that didn't matter. The language of photography proved universal. "I asked the fishermen if it was OK to take some shots. (In other words, I held up my camera and showed them my most friendly grin.) For more than a half-hour, I made my pictures."

6th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2008 contest

The European Parliament, a towering complex of glass skyscrapers, has 785 members representing 28 countries and more than 450 million citizens.

Brussels: One of Europe’s Great Travel Secrets

The political center of Europe, this Belgian city is also home to art museums and delicious mussels with frites, of course

Fisherman casts off from the cliffs of Cape Sagres.

Cape Sagres

This windswept coast was once home to a navigators’ school that readied explorers for adventures in the New World

Fátima is one of Europe’s top pilgrimage destinations. There are plenty of picnic benches, endless parking and desolate toilets for the masses.

Portugal: One Foot in the Past and One in the Future

While many things are changing in modern Portugal, the nation still holds steadfast to many traditions

The band plays on in a small-town Czech bar few tourists would think to frequent.

Trebon: Yellow Lampposts and Czech Fly Paper

South of Prague but a world away, Trebon offers a glimpse of traditional Eastern Europe

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Paying Attention

Ten Sites and One Overlooked Hero

Sherman has said she "didn't want to compete with the landscape," but she cleared space for a new Western woman.

Cindy Sherman: Monument Valley Girl

The artist's self portrait plays with our notions of an archetypal West

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