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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

Edward Hopper,

Smithsonian Associates

Earn a Smithsonian World Art History Certificate in 2021

Credit: “Left Side Right Side” (still) by Joan Jonas, 1972. Single-channel video (black-and-white, sound), 8:50 min. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2020 Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels (left). Alice Walker by Bernard Gotfryd, gelatin silver print, 1976. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © The Bernard Gotfryd Revocable Living Trust (center). Louis Armstrong (detail) by Philippe Halsman, gelatin silver print, 1966 (printed 1998). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Betsy Karel). The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014, the works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C. © Philippe Halsman Archive (right).

National Portrait Gallery

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Announces Virtual Programs for January and February

After composing and transcribing music for my wedding day, Red Baraat was born. Dave Sharma leads the baraat (wedding procession) on dhol, as I walk with my mother, family, and friends. August 27, 2005. (Photo courtesy of Sunny Jain)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

The Tradition of Now: Jainism, Jazz, and the Punjabi Dhol Drum

By studying recent mass extinctions on islands like Hawaii, Dr. Helen James is painting a picture of bird biodiversity today. Her research involves digging up fossils in caves to study bygone species, like the Kioea. (Johnny Gibbons)

National Museum of Natural History

Meet One of the Curators Behind the Smithsonian’s 640,000 Birds

Smithsonian Associates Streaming presents

Smithsonian Associates

An Evening with Martin Sheen and 24 Other Smithsonian Programs Streaming in January

Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History sequenced the genomes of 363 bird species in 2020. (Brian Schmidt, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

10 Popular Scientific Discoveries from 2020

A cheetah cub at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

8 Aww-Inspiring Videos of the Year's Best Animal and Conservation Stories

Middle school students learning with educational resources on American Indian removal produced by the National Museum of the American Indian. (Alex Jamison)

Smithsonian Education

Transforming Teaching and Learning About Native Americans

Take a virtual field trip to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute to see clouded leopards in a National Museum of Natural History Program streaming Jan 13. (Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Six Free Natural History Programs Streaming in January

Hank Adams carries a letter from the White House to Chief Frank Fools Crow (Oglala Lakota) during the siege of Wounded Knee. Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, 1973. (Hank Adams Collection)

National Museum of the American Indian

“The Most Important Indian”—In Memory of Hank Adams (1943–2020)

NASA astronaut and Pilot Victor Glover launched from the International Space Station on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission. (SpaceX)

National Air and Space Museum

Five Things We Learned from Victor Glover

Still from Walking (interstices), 1975 / Ingrid Wiegand. U-matic : 1 videocassette (U-Matic) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. Robert Wiegand papers and video art, 1953-1994. Archives of American Art.

Archives of American Art

A Conversation and Screening About Loft Life and Space-Making in the 1970s Inaugurates a New Series on January 7

Janet Echelman,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Looking for Light in American Art

Bright lights and large crowds were ever-present at the Weihnachtsmarkt in Dresden, Germany, 2014. (Photo by Pete Reiniger)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

A Taste of the German Christmas Market at Home: Glühwein mit Schuss

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