Kites aren't just for kids. Ben Franklin knew it, as did the 20,000 kiters and kite fans at this year's 31st annual Smithsonian kite festival
If it were not for dung beetles, members of the scarab family, every terrestrial organism would be up to its eyeballs in you know what
From a forest that flourished 207 million years ago, the Sherman Logs bear stony witness to a general's curiosity--and life in an age gone by
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Two current exhibitions prove that, although Charles Burchfield's watercolors are set in specific places, these works know no boundaries
It's been a mainstay of stage and screen; now after years in revival, a truly American art form returns full force, with energy and innovation
Review of 'The Demon-Haunted World', 'Einstein, History, and Other Passions', 'The End of Science'
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Under the stewardship of scholars Diderot and d'Alembert, the 18th-century's Encyclopédie championed fact and freedom of the intellect
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Controversies like those swirling around the FDR Memorial are the rule when Americans try to agree on anything to be cast in bronze
A patriarch of flight, Paul Garber devoted his Smithsonian career to the preservation of historic aircraft
Across America, a network of scrap-metal firms is supplying much of the raw materials, iron to aluminum, that fuel the growing global economy
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Hopes for the endangered vultures' survival soared recently after six captive birds were released on a clifftop in the Arizona wilds
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A detective working the computer crime beat still needs street smarts, but there's a lot of uncharted legal territory out there
Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there
A great actor, a shameless ham; an athlete, a drunk; a ladies' man, one of the boys-- the madcap Jack had as many faces as roles
There was no room for doubt in the Second Golden Age, as embodied in the ivories, enamels, jewels, silks and other treasures
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