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Like Water for Chocolate

Delicious Moments on Film

Monument Valley is not a national park. There aren't signs and rangers all around explaining the landscape and wildlife.

Tips on Roads Less Traveled in Monument Valley

Driving through the southwest? Make sure to read our tips on the best ways to appreciate Monument Valley

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Salmon Farming Can Be Sustainable

Smithsonian Magazine staff writer Abigail Tucker takes a closer look at the salmon farming industry

Henrietta Lacks' cells were essential in developing the polio vaccine and were used in scientific landmarks such as cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization.

Cracking the Code of the Human Genome

Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells

Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine

Christchurch is the home of the United States/New Zealand polar logistics center and is the jumping-off point for the flight to Antarctica.

Day 1: A Stopover in New Zealand

As the first Smithsonian secretary to set foot on Antarctica, Secretary Clough prepares for his trip from a research center in Christchurch

Four emperor penguins standing together near the ice roads in Antarctica.

Day 2: Arriving at the Spectacular Antarctic

Secretary Clough lands on a barren continent intertwined with Smithsonian history, prepared to discover the research being done

Fresh wasabi root

Can Wasabi Save Lives?

Fennel

Five Ways to Eat Fresh Fennel

I met a new vegetable recently, and I’m totally infatuated: fennel.

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