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Lt. Ward Hitt, Jr., sitting in the cockpit of his North American F-86A Sabre fighter, gives his crew chief the OK hand sign, South Korea.

National Air and Space Museum

70 Years Ago: F-86s and MiGs over Korea

Carruthers holding one of the film cassettes that the astronauts brought back from the moon from his lunar camera/sectrograph. (NASA)

National Air and Space Museum

George Robert Carruthers: Astronautical Engineer and Astronomer

Two prominent lobate thrust fault scarps on Mercury, Discovery Rupes and Beagles Rupes, imaged by Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) on the MESSENGER spacecraft. Discovery Rupes (left), named for the ship HMS Discovery, shown here in a MDIS high-incidence angle image mosaic, was first imaged by Mariner 10 in the mid-1970’s. Beagle Rupes (right), a bow-shaped fault scarp, was initial imaged during MESSENGER’s first flyby.

National Air and Space Museum

Mercury, The Not So Shrunken Planet

Zapotec weaver Porfirio Gutiérrez at work in his studio. (Photo courtesy of the artist)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

How We Can Travel the World and Share Culture through Craft

Reptile keepers are warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter, a young Komodo dragon named Onyx.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Caring for Komodo Dragons, the World's Largest Lizards

The Center for Idea Art. Flyer for Image Wars: an Exhibition of Oppositional Art, 15 May – 18 June 1984. Juan Sánchez papers, 1972-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Conversations Across Collections: Considering Art and Activism with Juan Sánchez

Xavier Viramontes,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Chicano Graphic Arts and the Making of the Landmark Exhibition "¡Printing the Revolution!"

These walrus ivory carvings were collected in the mid-1880s. They were featured in a catalogue for the exhibition

National Museum of Natural History

How Arctic Anthropologists are Expanding Narratives about the North

N8V Dance Fitness instructor Michelle Reed (far right) poses with participants of the Hannaville Indian Community of Michigan (Photo used with permission, courtesy of Michelle Reed)

National Museum of the American Indian

Meet Three Native Women Combining Powwow Dance With Other Types of Fitness

This telescope located in Cerro Tololo, Chile is just one of many within the MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network. (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Smithsonian Education

Aiming for the Stars

Robert S. Duncanson,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Inauguration Highlights Rainbow Painting by African American Artist

Alba Campo Rosillo giving a gallery talk

Office of Academic Appointments and Internships

A Painted Homage to A Political Giant: G.P.A. Healy’s Posthumous Portrait of President Lincoln

When abstract concepts, such as fairness, race and differences, are explored with picture books, spoken about during play or introduced in activities like art-making, they are accessible to children and better understood. (Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of African American History and Culture)

Smithsonian Education

Starting Conversations that Support Children Before Traumatic Events Happen

Learning about a major news event as it transpires can be stressful for families to navigate and process together. (Getty Images)

Smithsonian Education

Talking to Children After a Traumatic Event

Photograph of Toshiko Takaezu posing with work (detail), September 2004. Toshiko Takaezu papers, 1937-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

New Collections: Toshiko Takaezu Papers

The Volta’s electric eel, Electrophorus voltai, emits the strongest shocks of any animal on Earth. Although these eels were thought to be loners, the species was recently seen hunting in a group. (L. Sousa)

National Museum of Natural History

Shocking Study Finds Electric Eels Hunt Together

When the 2020-2021 school year started, 39 of the nation’s 50 largest school systems were among those that chose a distance learning instructional model. (ake1150sb/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Smithsonian Education

Learning Science at Home

Three of Yosl Cutler’s surviving puppets: two Jewish characters and one Russian. These were constructed circa 1933. (Photo courtesy of the Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

The Life and Death of a Yiddish Puppet Theater

In the midst of the pandemic, as the story goes, a team set out to bring swift foxes back to a land they had disappeared from more than 50 years ago.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

How Tribes and Conservation Partners are Bringing Swift Foxes Back to Their Historic Range

A meteorite in the process of being recovered by volunteers in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program. The shiny fusion crust on this meteorite suggests it may be an achondrite. (ANSMET)

National Museum of Natural History

What Antarctic Meteorites Tell Us About Earth’s Origins

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