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Albert Dieudonné in the title role of Abel Gance’s epic Napoleon.

Forget the Artist, the Restoration of Napoleon is the Silent Film Event of the Year

Your one and only chance to see a meticulous restoration of the silent French epic is quickly approaching

The Shape of Fruits to Come

How our need for convenience is redesigning our food supply

Could we ever have just one time zone?

One Time Zone for the World?

An astrophysicist and an economist want to fix our clocks and our calendars

A maned wolf enjoys a green treat for Saint Patrick's Day.

The Zoo Animals Find a Pot of Gold

The Cheetah Conservation Station’s maned wolves get a St. Patty’s Day treat

Why There’s No Time for Work at the Office

Legal expert Deborah Rhode reveals the true force behind all your meetings

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Pfizer’s Recipe for Pig Testicle Tacos

Corporate cookbooks occupy a unique place in the kitchen, and they exhibit corporate America’s attempt to establish societal norms

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Nature in Focus at the Environmental Film Festival

Environmental Film Festival highlights on view at Smithsonian locations

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Life in the Time of Dinosaurs

What was life like for Canada’s dinosaurs 70 million years ago? Paleontologist Annie Quinney can tell you

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Ask Smithsonian: Can Birds Be Identified Just From Their Feathers? Questions from Our Readers

Our new feature, Ask Smithsonian, is all about finding the answers. Do you have a question for our curators?

Is more than overeating to blame?

Is There More to Obesity Than Too Much Food?

Recent research suggests that chemicals used to protect, process and package food could be helping to create fat cells

Cloud, sea and sun create a morning sky as spectacular as it is serene as Matt Rutherford enters another day on his solo voyage around the Americas.

Will Matt Rutherford be First to Circumnavigate the Americas Solo?

“Basically, I either fail and everyone thinks I’m crazy, or I succeed and I’m a hero,” says the sailor, who is on the homestretch of a one-year journey

A new study shows that our ability to recall details from a crime scene are severely impaired after physical exertion.

How Well Do We Really Remember A Crime Scene?

A new study shows that our ability to recall details is severely impaired after physical exertion

This weekend kicks off "The Art of Video Games" with GameFest, a three day festival.

Weekend Events March 16-18: Evolution of Video Games, Saint Paddy Party, and Masterworks of Three Centuries

A reconstruction of a hypothetical adult Brachiosaurus next to a possible juvenile Brachiosaurus, SMA 0009.

A Baby Brachiosaur?

Brachiosaurus was once thought to be the ultimate prehistoric titan, but we know surprisingly little about this Jurassic dinosaur

An ocotillo flower

Wildflower Hunting in the California Desert

March is the traditional time to view the fab flora in Joshua Tree National Park

Anne Marsen in Girl Walk // All Day

How a Documentary Gets Made

A primer on where the documentary got its start and how the film genre gets its funding

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What Shredded Wheat Did for the Navy

The inventor of one of the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereals was also an accidental historian

Lady Mary Leiter Curzon by Franz Von Lenbach, 1901

Amy Henderson: “Downton Abbey” and the Dollar Princesses

A curator tells of 19th-century American socialites, who like Cora Crowley, found noble husbands and flushed Britain with cash

A microbiologist collects a manure sample

Mysterious Exploding Foam is Bursting Barns

One explosion raised a barn roof several feet in the air and blew the hog farmer 30 or 40 feet from the door

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Game On At the American Art Museum This Weekend

“The Art of Video Games” opens at the American Art Museum with a weekend packed with gaming, panels, and performances

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