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Rina Banerjee weaves personal and global history into her new Sackler Gallery installation, opening July 13
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Take a peek at some of the living artwork entered in an international competition in Quebec this summer
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In the darkroom, photographer Ajay Malghan creates abstract art by casting light through thin slices of produce
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Next time you fire up the grill, try making your favorite pizza
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It is now nearly invisible in word-processing programs, but it was one of the most elaborate of manuscript ornaments
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We sent the Director of the American Indian Museum to the Lone Ranger; here's what he thought
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Harvey Girls helped settle the west and advance the stature of women in the workforce
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Go locate the hidden bottles and replace each with a selection of your own
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Houston has a healthy allowance for beautifying its streets and parks. See how it spends it
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The evolution of the baseball bat, and a few unusual mutations
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Software engineer Alexey Papulovskiy has built Contrailz, a site that generates visuals of flight data over cities around the world
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View our judges’ top 25 picks, and help us select the Readers' Choice Award winner!
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A collage artist combs through glamour shots of forgotten Hollywood actors to create compelling celebrity mashups
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Looking for a good book? We’ve got some suggestions
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Inside a lab in Pisa, forensics pathologist Gino Fornaciari and his team investigate 500-year-old cold cases
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NASA and NOAA release satellite images of Earth and all its vegetation
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The development of the baseball, from shoe rubber and lemon peels to today's minimalist, modernist object
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Houston photographer Deborah Bay captures the violent power of projectiles lodged in bulletproof plexiglass
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Every generation produces kid geniuses, but in the early 1900s, the public was obsessed with them
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