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May 14, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
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These delicate and stunning creatures are offering Smithsonian scientists a warning sign for the world's waters turning more acidic
May 14, 2013
| By Hannah Waters
Demanding a combination of brains and brawn, this new sport has competitors floating like butterflies and stinging like kings
May 13, 2013
| By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
One of the founding father's more quixotic quests was to create a new alphabet. No Q included
May 10, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
The Japanese artist depicts blossoms from various plant species in fastidious detail
May 10, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
There's a word for that odd quirk of Apple iPads that hold on to design components of old keyboards
May 08, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
F. Scott Fitzgerald couldn’t resist putting his own life into his novels, but where’s the line between truth and fiction?
May 07, 2013
| By Sarah Laskow
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg reconstructs the faces of strangers from genetic evidence she scavenges from the streets
May 03, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
What came first: the typist or the keyboard? The answer may surprise you
May 03, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
The honored Brit—50 years in the business—goes for the bold in her designer collections
May 02, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
The Repentir app reveals an artist's creative process by allowing users to peel back layers of paint with the touch of their fingertips
May 02, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Venture into the highly regulated and fascinating world of bovine pyroglyphics
April 30, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Chefs around the country are experimenting with the springy, tart version of this favorite berry. Try pickling them yourself
April 30, 2013
| By Twilight Greenaway
A new book shows how the photographer creates startling images of open-pit mines, evaporation ponds and other sites of environmental degradation
April 26, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
These infrastructural lines mark the pathways of pipes and wires beneath the paved surface -- but what does each color mean?
April 26, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
A talented seamstress and savvy businesswoman, she catered to Washington's socialites
April 24, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
It's right up there with food, sex and drugs when its comes to stirring up pleasure responses in our brains.
April 24, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
For the EPA's State of the Environment Photography Project, people are returning to sites photographed in the 1970s. They are snapping the scenes yet again—to document any changes in the landscape
April 22, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Growing up as a poor Astor and the roots of psychiatry
May 2013
| By Chloë Schama
Jennie C. Jones has the answer. Her first solo museum show opens at the Hirshhorn in May
May 2013
| By Jamie Katz
A new poem by Amit Majmudar
April 2013
| By Amit Majmudar
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum looks to expand in a bold new way
May 2013
| By Joseph Giovannini
Jerry Uelsmann and other artists manually blended negatives to produce dreamlike sequences
May 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
Without this simple invention, impressionists such as Claude Monet wouldn’t have been able to create their works of genius
May 2013
| By Perry Hurt
Cairo’s artists have turned their city’s walls into a vast social network
May 2013
| By Waleed Rashed
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