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The famous chariot race form Ben-Hur before and after the restoration.

Restoring Ben-Hur: Catherine Wyler Reminisces About her Father’s Biggest Film

A million-dollar restoration will help introduce the Oscar-winning film to a new audience

People who eat too many croissants for breakfast or visit during August.

Swimming in Paris

Lap-swimming in Paris takes cultural openness and skimpy bathing attire

Andy Warhol, "Shadows," 1978-79. Dia Art Foundation. Copyright 2011 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

A Fresh Look at Andy Warhol

Hirshhorn curator Evelyn Hankins discusses the new Warhol show, on view through January 15, 2012

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Catching Up With Planet Dinosaur

Feathered dinosaurs do have feathers, and the cannibalism storyline is solid, but it's a shame to see venomous Sinornithosaurus and the "dino gangs" trap

There are as many as 7,000 drones in service; apparently manufacturers are struggling to keep up with demand.

Drones Get Smarter

We're moving closer to the day when flying robots will make decisions on their own

With veggies like these, would you make soup or music?

The Sweet Sound of… Vegetables?

Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra makes music by thunking on pumpkins and making carrot recorders and cucumberphones

Water in the Black Sea’s northern reaches gets as cold as seawater can get—31 degrees Fahrenheit—and as warm as the 80s in summer.

The Wild World of the Black Sea

Visitors come for the place and spill onto the beach and pose exuberantly under umbrellas and wrestle with colorful inflatable toys in the brown waves

See the documentary "Columbus Day Legacy" this Saturday at the American Indian Museum.

Weekend Events Sept. 30 – Oct. 2: Treasures at the Museum, Columbus Day Legacy, and Portrait Discovery

This weekend, get a book autographed, see a thought-provoking documentary, and see the Portrait Gallery in a whole new way

An Isleta woman and her children sell goods alongside a train track, circa late 1880s to early 1900s

A Community’s Common Heritage at the Heye Center in New York City

At the American Indian Museum in New York City, a new exhibition illustrates the changes at Isleta Pueblo brought by the arrival of the railroad in 1881

The original penicillin mold discovered by Fleming is in the collections held at the American History Museum

The List: Medical Innovations at the Smithsonian

On the anniversary of the legendary discovery of polio, take a tour of the most significant medical inventions in history

The Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

Mount Lebanon Shaker Village Redux

An outstanding collection of Shaker arts and crafts moves to the old Shaker Village in New York

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The Terrible Dinosaurs of the 1970s

How many students are still meeting outdated dinosaurs, rather than the dinosaurs we now know?

The Lion King 3D has been surprising box office prognosticators.

Playing It Again: The Big Business of Re-Releases

How rereleases drove—and still drive—the film industry

King Ananda Mahidol of Siam in 1939

Long Live the King

A gunshot rang out in the king's bedroom in June 1946, ending one reign and beginning another. Uncertainty over how it happened has persisted ever since

A long exposure of a Motyxia millipede highlights its greenish-blue glow

The Millipede That Glows In The Dark

The blind, nocturnal arthropod produces a deadly toxin when disturbed

Farming and new media are not mutually exclusive.

The Farmer and the Dell—or the iPhone

New technology is taking the farmer-consumer relationship to another level

A circular landing track imagined for New York in 1919

When We All Commute by Airplane

If commuting to work via personal aeroplane was the future, how might the design of cities change to accommodate them?

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Is There a Future For Terra Nova?

The show borrows heavily from other sci-fi sources and the first episode was heavy on exposition. But what about the dinosaurs?

Performer Diosa Costello, honored at a donation ceremony last week

Legendary Performer Diosa Costello Donates Wardrobe to Smithsonian

A pioneer of theater, nightclubs and Broadway gives her costumes to the American History Museum

Fishermen pass the hours along the Bosporus Strait. They occasionally catch sardines.

Istanbul: The Maddest City in Europe

“That’s the fattest stray dog I’ve ever seen.” A lot has changed here since Mark Twain wrote about the city, but there's still plenty of mayhem

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