Spend spring break at the National Portrait Gallery, explore the Smithsonian gardens, and learn about baseball's special place in our presidential history
New research suggests the brain is more organized than previously thought and alsothat a full memory can reside within only a few neurons
The former U.S. poet laureate writes about the Italian city
Renowned photographer Mary Ellen Mark invites herself to the dance, capturing the poignant moment teenagers teeter on the edge of adulthood
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The Italian art movement that celebrated modernity still moves us 100 years later
Artist Doug Aitken’s “SONG1” will transform the Smithsonian art museum, projecting a series of fantastic moving images onto its concrete exterior
We brought your questions on paleontology, Civil War photography and other subjects to the Institution’s experts
The art and science of looking ahead
America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing
TR’s rough ride as New York’s police chief shaped the man who became president just six years later
They helped overthrow Qaddafi by smuggling arms and spying on the government. Now the women of Libya are fighting for a greater voice in society
The personal memoir of history's most famous lover reveals a misunderstood intellectual who befriended the likes of Ben Franklin
The Basques followed the sheep from Europe to the western United States and they brought with them their boardinghouse cuisine
An ambitious project in Singapore will boast 18 supertrees, climbing up to 160 feet tall
In Colombia, the fossil of a gargantuan snake has stunned scientists, forcing them to rethink the nature of prehistoric life
The celebrated science fiction writer and author of Tomorrow Now, explains why you don't need to be clairvoyant to predict the future
According to past predictions, we should be living in an era of flying cars and other marvels. But be glad that some advances haven't happened
The "transhumanist" movement says better technology will enable you to replace more and more body parts—even your brain
In the 1950s and '60s, the newspaper cartoonist dreamed up a madcap American utopia, filled with flying cars and fantastical skyscrapers
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