After her mother consumed two other cubs, staff took the unprecedented step of raising her themselves
Artist Janet Echelman combines ancient techniques with modern technology to create her largest-ever net sculpture for TED's 30th anniversary
Of course you have to hit the Louvre, but here are a few others to add to your cultural bucket list
New research says our olfactory system is far more sensitive than we thought
The research into the relationship between quick thinking and methodical reasoning could take some time to decipher
On Twitter and Facebook, which spreads quickest: joy, sadness or disgust?
Biologists are in a race to locate and identify new species as habitats become victim to an industrialized world
Thirty years ago, astronauts set out on the first untethered space odyssey
You asked, we answered
Smithsonian Best Small Towns 2014
From country music to herbal cocktails to horseshoe crabs to Rodin, our third annual list takes you to cultural gems worth mining
Post retirement, he will be spending more time in Douglas, Georgia
An unlikely place for immigrants from central Asia, New Hampshire is an ideal adopted homeland
If you’re looking for some of America’s best bourbon, denim and burgers, go to Japan, where designers are re-engineering our culture in loving detail
John Singleton Copley left for Europe on the eve of the American Revolution. A historian and her teenage son made the trip to see why
No novelist captured the muddy waterway and its people like the creator of Huckleberry Finn, as a journey along the river makes clear
One hundred years ago, the Bonneville Salt Flats became a racing paradise
Sarah Schoenfield’s experience as a bartender put her on the path to giving a “face” to illegal drugs
This summer, a ship named after naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry will set sail
A new poem by Carol Muske-Dukes
Strong and brave, the Amazons were a force to be reckoned with in Greek mythology—but did the fierce female warriors really exist?
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