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Fighting Terrorism in the Future
A 1981 book predicted that the soldiers of the future could be more like heavily armed policemen than a fighting force
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Do You Know This Face? The Smithsonian Needs Help Identifying These Women Scientists
For Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives crowdsources the identification of unknown figures in decades-old portraits
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Edward Curtis’ Epic Project to Photograph Native Americans
His 20-volume masterwork was hailed as “the most ambitious enterprise in publishing since the production of the King James Bible”
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The Gray Wolf: The Great Lakes’ Comeback Kid
How do scientists know how many wolves are out there? Listen to how they howl, and then count how many wolves howl back
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New Hominid Species Unearthed in Chinese Caves?
Fossils discovered in China may belong to a new species of hominid or they may be evidence that modern humans were more diverse thousands of years ago
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Battle Lizard
A film-in-progress imagines a future in which cowboys ride dinosaurs
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Sipping From a Skull
Archaeologists may have found the earliest examples of human skull cups
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Such Great Heights: The Hidden Architecture of Elevator Shoes
How a shoe designed to address male inadequacy has become a symbol of female fashion sense
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The Search for Amelia Earhart Resurfaces, 75 Years Later
With new leads on where she may have landed, the mystery and her legacy continue
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When Cameras Trick Us and We Love It
Technological wizardry is allowing us to see the natural world in stunningly new ways
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It’s Always Springtime at the Flower Market
Exploring New York City’s mid-town bloom bazaar, a unusual burst of color and perfume amid the helter-skelter of the city
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The World’s Best Uphill Bike Rides
Long, steady climbs on a bicycle are the holy grail of athletic conquests. We hill climbers measure the worth of a landscape by its rise over run
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Using Space Satellites to Spot Ancient Cities
Computer analysis of satellite imagery has revealed what could be a record number of archaeological sites
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A History Lesson is Passed Down to Another Generation
The real prize for Black History Month essay contest Kaleb Harris was meeting Joseph McNeil, one of the leaders of the 1960 Greensboro sit-in
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A Brief History of Bitters
The author of a new book on bitters explains how they went from medicine to cocktail ingredient
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On Heroic Self-Sacrifice: a London Park Devoted to Those Most Worth Remembering
In 1887, a painter was inspired by an idea: commemorate the everyday heroism of men, women and children who had lost their lives trying to save another’s
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Bizarre Bee-havior in the Battle Against the Giant Hornet
To protect their hive from an invading hornet, Asian honeybees gang up and surround it, forming a “hot defensive bee ball”
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Paleontologists Announce Two Tiny Ceratopsians
A pair of mysterious, tiny dinosaur specimens have turned out to be new species of horned dinosaurs
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Top Ten Hominid Fantasy Finds
You can’t predict what the next major hominid discovery will be, but you can daydream about it
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