From absorbing shocks to shock absorbers
A new multimedia exhibition shows how innovations in transportation spurred the growth of the nation
In an unexplored region of Africa's Atlantic coast, an innovative photographer captures Gabon's bountiful wildlife
Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming
The Persian Gulf kingdom has embraced openness and capitalism. Might other Mideast nations follow?
Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia: Beacon museum on New York's Hudson River
Berkeley researchers toil to stay abreast of Samuel Clemens' enormous literary output, which appears to continue unabated
Richard Waterman's never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best
Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the "continuity of life in the face of disaster"
Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners
The Cooper-Hewitt explores the wide-ranging impact of historical and contemporary designs
There was no love lost between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. But at the very brink of failure, they found a way to reach agreement
In the 1970s, British accountant Alfred Wainwright linked back roads, rights-of-way and ancient footpaths to blaze a trail across the sceptered isle
The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
In a remote region of Cameroon, an international team of scientists takes extraordinary steps to prevent the recurrence of a deadly natural disaster
Accident and serendipity played their parts in the inventions of penicillin, the World Wide Web and the Segway super scooter
In the Iraq war, highly trained cetaceans helped U.S. forces clear mines in Umm Qasr's harbor
No one knows if SARS will strike again. But researchers' speedy work halting the epidemic makes a compelling case study of how to combat a deadly virus
Stanford Addison uses intuition, compassion and persistence to "break" wild horses
Bold, garish and steamy cover images from popular pulp-fiction magazines of the 1930s and '40s have made their way from newsstands to museum walls
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