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Closing Soon: 1) "Calder's Portraits: A New Language;" 2) "Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection;" 3) "Chinamania: Whistler and the Victorian Craze for Blue-and-White;" 4) "Fragments in Time and Space"*

Hurry In! Exhibitions Closing in August

Summer and the city is hot. Refresh and cool down at these exhibits, closing this month

Part of a sauropod trackway from the Teruel, Spain tracksite

Spain’s Tiny Sauropods Traveled Together

At least six individuals moved in the same direction, nearly parallel to each other—the tracks represent a herd

Brain cells, stained in red, are sensitive to hormones that influence appetite

Dieting May Cause The Brain to Eat Itself

When “autophagy” was blocked, hunger signals were blocked and the mice became lighter and leaner

Left: Lisa and Minter Dial, on their way to the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Right: Minter's ring

Minter’s Ring: The Story of One World War II POW

When excavators in Inchon, Korea discovered a U.S. naval officer’s ring, they had no knowledge of the pain associated with its former owner, Minter Dial

Wild Bill Hickok's present-day gravesite in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood, SD

American Wonder Wild Bill Hickok Shot and Killed From Behind on This Day in History

Wild Bill dead of a gunshot wound to the head, see one of his guns at a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

More Fantasy Foods Made Real

The imaginary has come to life: Scooby Snacks, Cheesy Poofs and even Soylent Green

The award’s design derives from the station identification that MTV used when it debuted in 1981, which included astronaut images overlain with rock music.

Air and Space Museum’s “Moon Man” Celebrates MTV’s 30th Anniversary

Celebrate MTV’s 30th anniversary by looking back at the history of the iconic “Moon Man” statuette, and learn its surprising connection to the Smithsonian

A pothole is the gateway drug to civic engagement

A Fine Fix or, All You Need Is Gov?

To start rebuilding our faith in government, we need to go local. And our smart phones will help us

A baby Cavendish's dik-dik at the San Diego Zoo

What In The World Is A Dik-dik?

Unlike other African antelope species, there are no herds of dik-diks. They form monogamous pairs that stand guard over their own territory

The Air and Space Museum’s Ask and Expert Lecture series is at it again this Wednesday with a look into the life of Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov

Events August 1-5: Seasons Arts of Japan, Doll Pins, Gherman Titov, Ancient Central America, Dinner and a Movie

This week visit the Smithsonian for ExplorAsia, a craft session at Anacostia, a chance to learn about Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov and more

Do you know the five spices that go into fish curry?

Inviting Writing: The Mother-in-Law’s Kitchen

My folks thought it was time I started thinking about marriage and therefore take the kitchen more seriously. Seriously? Why?

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Battling the Dinosaurs of Project Blackout

Dinosaurs are handy video game monsters. They’re famous, fearsome and nearly unstoppable

Luna sought the company of humans on Nootka Sound.

Luna: A Whale to Watch

The true story of a lonely orca leaps from printed page to silver screen, with a boost from new technology

Scientists have found increasing evidence that culture shapes what and how orcas eat, what they do for fun, even their choice of mates.

Understanding Orca Culture

Researchers have found a variety of complex, learned behaviors that differ from pod to pod

In the worst animal epidemic in years, white-nose syndrome threatens to wipe out some bat species.

What Is Killing the Bats?

Can scientists stop white-nose syndrome, a new disease that is killing bats in catastrophic numbers?

Female Chilean rose tarantula (Grammostola rosea), also known as the Chilean flame tarantula.

Wild Things: Tarantulas, Jellyfish and More…

Hummingbirds, attacking bears, ancient hominids and other news updates in wildlife research

Now open: Udvar-Hazy's Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar (artist rendering).

A Better Space

Wernher von Braun would come to personify NASA's space exploration program.

Wernher von Braun’s V-2 Rocket

Although the Nazi “vengeance weapon” was a wartime failure, it ushered in the space age

Through September 5, the National Portrait Gallery is displaying 60 paintings on loan from private collections in Washington, D.C. Among the portraits is that of Judith Martin, better known as advice columnist "Miss Manners."

Q and A with Miss Manners

The columnist talks about how her portraiture collection reflects culture’s stance on etiquette

A biologists at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Jorge Santiago-Blay has gathered some 2,000 samples of amber and exudates from species found around the world and analyzed 1,245 of them.

Seeking the Origins of Amber

By studying the chemical signatures of living trees, Smithsonian’s Jorge Santiago-Blay intends to reconstruct ancient forests

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