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Country artist Victoria Blackie (Navajo)

Victoria Blackie Brings Some Country to NMAI

Catch up-and-coming Navajo country artist Victoria Blackie this Saturday, June 11, outside of NMAI

Delicious looking watermelons

Five Ways to Eat Watermelon

The best way to eat watermelon? By the wedge, bare feet dangling into a pool or lake. But here are five other pretty good ideas

Can a letter in your name truly affect your purchasing habits?

Does Your Last Name Affect Your Buying Habits?

Researchers claim that people with names at the end of the alphabet respond more quickly to purchasing opportunities

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Waking the T. Rex Brings Sue to Life

The film showcases some of the new techniques paleontologists are using to investigate dinosaur lives

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Dancing Splash Mob Floods the Natural History Museum

Watch the Smithsonian’s first ever flash mob in the Natural History Museum’s Ocean Hall

A view of the catbird's seat

A Backyard Garden Proves a Haven for Catbird Research

A Smithsonian study blaming cats for bird deaths angered some cat lovers. Now, an effort is underway in local neighborhoods to confirm the results

Unofficially, the periodic table goes up to element 118.

Meet the New Elements

It’s official: Elements 114 and 116 do exist and belong on the periodic table

Most of your neighborhood ice cream vendors peaceably sell frozen treats. Good Humor Man.

Law and Order: Ice Cream Truck Unit

Here’s the scoop on four cases of criminal behavior involving the local ice cream man

One of the Copper Ridge theropod tracks. The front of the foot - indicated by the three toe impressions - is towards the top of the picture.

Dinosaur Diamond: Following an Injured Allosaurus

A fresh coating of dried mud gave the 150-million-year-old tracks a more recent look, as if dinosaurs had walked by just last week

No recordings of Abraham Lincoln's voice exist since he died 12 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first device to record and play back sound. Shown here is Lincoln delivering his famous Gettysburg Address in 1863.

Ask Smithsonian 2017

Ask an Expert: What Did Abraham Lincoln’s Voice Sound Like?

Civil War scholar Harold Holzer helps to decode what spectators heard when the 16th president spoke

Bangkok’s floating market

Inviting Writing: Thai Spaghetti

A visit to Thailand unfortunately led to a meal of Italian food

A population of the wicker ancylid limpet (insert, not to scale) was found recently in Choccolocco Creek in Alabama.

Alabama Snail Returns From the Dead

The wicker ancylid, declared extinct in 2000, has been found alive and well in Choccolocco Creek

On Wednesday, June 8, at 6:30, meet ocean explorer Enric Sala at the Natural Museum.

Events June 6-10: Spacesuits, Quilting, Wild Ocean, Ikebana, Coffee + Art

Events for the week of June 6 include spacesuits, a quilting demonstration, ikebana and more

A hump-backed Spinosaurus, restored by R.E. Johnson and from Bailey 1997.

Was Spinosaurus a Bison-Backed Dinosaur?

Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus were fundamentally different, and they remain among the most bizarre dinosaurs yet discovered

Seven Dials, in central London, was synonymous with poverty and crime, a black hole to most Londoners. Charles Dickens stormed it with pen and paper.

How Charles Dickens Saw London

Sketches by Boz, the volume of newspaper columns that became Dickens’ first book, invokes a colorful view of 19th-century England

A sunspot is bigger than the Earth, as demonstrated in this colorized image.

The Source of the Sun’s Dark Spots

A new study provides insight into how convection creates sunspots

Adorable andean bear cubs

Bear Care: Bear Awareness Days at the National Zoo

The Bear Awareness Days event raises awareness about the animals in general and teaches about conservation issues that affect all bear species

A photographic update on Lisa's fledgling garden

Life, Death and Unnatural Acts in the Vegetable Garden

My first epiphany was that gardening has a lot more to do with encouraging death than life

The Mamenchisaurus centerpiece in the "World's Largest Dinosaurs" exhibit.

Name a Giant Dinosaur

Should Mamenchisaurus go by the nickname Neckita? Mei Mei? Tiny? Vote now

Though admired for his essays, his fiction and revisions of William Strunk's Elements of Style, it is Charlotte's Web that keeps his name before the public, generation after generation.

How E.B. White Wove Charlotte’s Web

A new book explores how the author of the beloved children’s book was inspired by his love for nature and animals

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