From a Confederate spy to a deepwater researcher, women are everywhere and the Smithsonian is telling their stories
How the make-believe alter ego of an imaginative teen in the 1970s won him the fame he always dreamed of 40 years later
Artist Nathalie Miebach uses meteorological data to create 3D woven works of art and playable musical scores
3D printing is a new technology that seems poised to change the world, but its origins date back all the way to the 15th century
In his new book, Serpentine, Mark Laita captures the colors, textures and sinuous forms of a variety of snake species
From the late-19th century to the 1970s, restaurants had one surefire way of standing out
Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
Is it art? Or science? With DNA, Eduardo Kac pushes the limits of creativity and ethics
Artists are borrowing from biology to create dazzling "biodesigns" that challenge our aesthetics—and our place in nature
Macrophotographer Thomas Shahan takes portraits of spiders and insects in the hopes of turning your revulsion of the creatures into reverence
Everything from parrots to gossipy novels influenced art in Japan between 1603 to 1868
The Armory Show provoked reactions of love and hate; today it is recognized as changing American art forever
Dominic Episcopo's red and raw images capture the spirit of Americana.
British artist Luke Jerram's handblown glass sculptures show the visual complexity and delicacy of E. coli, swine flu, malaria and other killing agents
A juried competition honors photographs, illustrations, videos, posters, games and apps that marry art and science in an evocative way
Italian artist Lorenzo Possenti created 16 enormous sculptures of giant insects, all scientifically accurate, now on display at an Oklahoma museum
Each culture has its own version of how the universe began. Artist Noah MacMillan brings this “visual vocabulary” to life
On his way to becoming an international icon, the subversive and secretive street artist turned the art world upside-down
To test the reaches of laser communication, NASA beamed a digital image of Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait to a satellite orbiting the moon
Artist and MIT professor Erik Demaine makes flat geometric diagrams spring into elegant, three-dimensional origami sculptures
We sent photojournalist Tamir Kalifa to the inauguration to ask attendees why they came to the National Mall
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