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What are the must-read books written by and about the famed British author?
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In honor of MLK day, the president of the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation speaks about seeing the project to fruition
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Some researchers insist that birds are not dinosaurs, but do they have any evidence?
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A new study shows that our perceptions of wealth don't always match up with reality
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A photographer uses a scanning electron microscope to zoom in on everyday foods—and makes art
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Sightseeing across the country in an atomic-powered "pleasure ball"
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With the Lytro camera, you no longer have to bother with focusing an image. Plus, your photos become interactive
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If the non-avian dinosaurs hadn't died out 65 million years ago, what would they look like today?
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New Zealand is worth visiting, but I'm not sure how long I can keep traveling here while claiming to be "on the cheap"
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What are your favorite varieties, and what do they say about you? And did you sell the cookies as a kid?
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Friedrich Nietzsche philosophizes on where luck and skill come into play
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Films both new and old that we look forward to in the coming year
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Now, with 'Ask Smithsonian,' the magazine gives you the chance to ask your own questions—and have them answered by Smithsonian experts
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Scientists have several candidates for the title of earliest Homo sapiens
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"Going the way of the dinosaur" is a popular phrase, but one drawn from bizarre 20th century ideas that dinosaurs were due for an extinction
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A renowned theoretical physicist comes to speak at the Natural History Museum
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The replication of a historic whisky might reflect merely our fascination with artificial artifacts---but the whisky yielded a surprise
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Students in England concluded that the Star Wars space station could easily have destroyed an Earth-like planet
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The public's fascination with the concept of "movable pavement" extends back more than 130 years
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