Urbanization and the spread of artificial light are transforming all of earth's species, bringing about a host of unintended consequences
Stretch young learners’ minds with everything from card games to robotic spheres
For nearly 200 years after the founding of New York, the city struggled to establish a clean source of fresh water
While traveling in Venice for what would be his best-selling memoir, the author’s encounter with an African-American art expert forever changed his writing
Likenesses of six American icons including Jeff Bezos, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Frances Arnold join the collections
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and help explain how we got to where we are today
A team of Smithsonian conservation specialists tours the islands and offers expertise
Photographer Tina Freeman's exhibition ‘Lamentations’ at the New Orleans Museum of Art juxtaposes two different environments
Many have suggested Frank Sheeran's claims about the murder of Jimmy Hoffa are mere fantasy; the historical context of Scorsese's epic is more nuanced
What to read when you’ve been bitten by the travel bug
The wasp genus <em>Idris</em> had only been known to infest spider eggs, until now
A telephone monopoly and a fear of wiretapping kept the invention out of homes for decades
Dating back 200 years, the cloak represents the violence brought to the islands by colonial powers
The two-wheelers revolutionized personal transport—and led to surprising societal changes
The newspaper standby still rivets our attention a century later
The mountaintop home of an Italian hermit who lived in the U.S. in the 1860s still attracts a handful of pilgrims
A world in a hurry turns to a lumbering early 20th-century technology for a lesson in efficiency
An 18th-century album of India's flora and fauna showcases the startling work of an overlooked master
Disappearing patches of ice unleash new artifacts for discovery, but many could quickly degrade exposed to the elements
A powerful outburst in a distant galaxy produced photons with high enough energies to be detected by ground-based telescopes for the first time
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