If bacterial life did arise on an Earth-like early Mars, we should be able to find its fossil remains preserved in those red rocks
Plant and the butterflies will come: This summer the Smithsonian’s new garden welcomes its winged visitors
My Psychiatrist Tells Me I Have ‘Sci-Fitis’…
On an ordinary April day the weirdness came to town
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A Vibrant New Heart For the Art in San Francisco
A short walk from the uphill end of the Fisherman’s Wharf trolley line is a former working-class neighborhood that is the city’s new home for the arts
Review of ‘Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science’
Review of ‘Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science’
It’s Hard to Believe One Man Held Sway Over All This Land
But it’s true. In the mid-1800s Lucien Maxwell, a dauntless former mountain man, ruled a huge chunk of New Mexico and lower Colorado
One Thousand and One Ways of Saying Uncle
Sam meddles shamelessly in U.S. politics and carries on with Miss Liberty, but nobody knows for sure exactly where he came from
As part of our 150th-anniversary celebration, we’re going to take 150 museum treasures on the road
The Smithsonian Associates have a ‘national treasure’ in their midst, but shhh, don’t tell…
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The Dying Tecumseh and the Birth of a Legend
A sculpture in the Smithsonian collection reveals much about how the Indians of the West were viewed in the early ages of the United States
My Dog Has Fleas, Also My Cat, My Bird, My…
These tiny prehistoric parasites have evolved a bold array of weapons, the better to torture their hosts
Gag writers and cartoonists are good pen pals as long as they can get a laugh in seven seconds (tick, tick …)
Mondrian and the Eternal Rectangle
In search of the transcendent, the Dutch painter created grids of red, blue and yellow that are very much with us
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