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Your Genetic Future: Horse-Dogs, Plantimals and Mini-Rhino Pets
A kids’ magazine in the ‘80s hoped that by now we’d have a whole new array of pets to choose from
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Holiday Gift Guide: Must-Reads from the Smithsonian’s Curators
We asked the institution team for their picks from the past year, from art to poetry to science
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Scientists Discover Oldest Known Dinosaur
A fragmentary skeleton pins the emergence of dinosaurs more than 10 million years earlier than previously thought
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Besse Cooper, World’s Oldest Person, Passes Away
Born in 1896, Besse Cooper was came into a world that was vastly different than the one she just left
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Nine Gift Ideas For the Science-Loving Art Enthusiast on Your List
Be it a book, movie, calendar or game, these picks are perfect for the hardest-to-shop-for people on your list
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How Death Played a Role in the Evolution of Human Height
A longer life expectancy might have allowed members of the genus Homo to grow taller than earlier australopithecines, researchers propose
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Birds Harness the Deadly Power of Nicotine to Kill Parasites
And city birds are stuffing their nests with cigarette butts to poison potential parasites
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Blame Napoleon for Our Addiction to Sugar
Prior to 1850, sugar was a hot commodity that only society’s most wealthy could afford
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An articulated hand found in southern Utah complicates the story of North America’s feathery, beaked oviraptorosaurs
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Collecting the World’s Collections of Small Oddities One Day at a Time
A Q&A with Diana Zlatanovski on how she came to collect collections, what they say about design, and how to be a collector without becoming a hoarder
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Five Ways to Deck Your Halls With Food this Christmas
There are lots of ways to use goods in the pantry to make your digs a little merrier
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Take Two Pills and Charge Me in the Morning
Health and medical mobile apps are booming. But what happens when they shift from tracking data to diagnosing diseases?
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Grandpa Jetson is Way Cooler Than Grandpa Simpson
Montague Jetson is 110 years old—and loving it
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Sick of Fluorescents? New Technology Provides Flicker-Free Light
A new advance in lighting could soon bring a silent, consistent glow that’s easy on the eyes to an office near you
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UPDATE: Spidernaut Dies at Natural History Museum
After 99 days in space, the museum’s new jumping spider made it only five days before dying of natural causes
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Dress Codes and Etiquette, Part 3: The Death of the Dinner Jacket on Open Water
Are the days of wearing just a tuxedo t-shirt just over the horizon?
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Have GPS Devices Taken the Fun out of Navigation?
With the rise of the digital age, the fascinating skills of map reading and celestial navigation are becoming lost arts
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A Holiday Gift Guide for the Whole Human Family
An offering of books, bumper stickers, artwork and other knickknacks for the hominid enthusiast on your gift list
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Events December 4-6: May Yohe, DC Demographics and Kenyan Water
This week, a new book on an old diva, a panel on the capital’s Latino populations and a documentary about waterways in Kenya
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Fire Good. Make Human Inspiration Happen.
New evidence suggests that fire may have influenced the evolution of the human mind
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