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The April 6, 2009 earthquake in Italy destroyed many buildings, new and old.

Should We Blame Scientists for Not Predicting Earthquakes?

A group of Italian scientists may go to trial for allegedly playing down the risk of the quake that struck the Abruzzo region of Italy in April 2009

George Clinton performing in May of 2007

Smithsonian Wants George Clinton’s Funk

Wood models of human heads in the NIST Museum collection

Why Did the Standards Bureau Need These Heads?

The NIST Museum has placed images of several items on the website of its Digital Archives and is asking the public for help

Grasshopper pie

Tastes Like Disco: A Meal from 1978

For my husband’s birthday, I prepared a dinner of recipes from the year he was born. I immediately noticed a few differences from the way we eat today

A memorial design by Andrew Jackson Language Academy students honored one of the school's teachers.

Carry-all for Homeless Wins Design Competition

A T-rex in Sri Lanka

Dinosaur Sighting: Tyrant King of the Crustaceans

Have you seen a prehistoric creature in an unusual place? Send us a photo

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The File Inside the Cake: True Tales of Prison Escapes

Jailbirds really have tried to fly the coop by way of contraband—files, handsaws and even guns—hidden inside baked goods

In NASA’s new view of the heliosphere, the magnetic field lines (in red and blue) create a foamy layer of magnetic bubbles at the far edge

Bubbles of Magnetism at the End of the Solar System

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have found a foamy layer at the edge of the heliosphere

Photo of Ryan North

Interview With Ryan North, Creator of Dinosaur Comics

To get a better understanding of where Dinosaur Comics fits in the Venn diagram intersection of dinosaur blogs and web comics, I talked with its creator

The Set in Style app

Playing Dress-Up With Van Cleef & Arpels

A summer intern gets a plum assignment—play on Facebook and dress-up in Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry

Two of the newest U.S. citizens who were naturalized on Sept. 20, 2010.

Twenty People Become Citizens at the American History Museum

Holocaust survivor and civil rights activist Gerda Weissmann Klein addresses new citizens at the museum’s sixth naturalization ceremony

Chocolate fondue

New Inviting Writing Theme: Waiters and Waitresses

Let’s hear your best, worst or funniest dining-out experience, from the perspective of the server or the served

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Jack Horner Explains How to Build a Dinosaur

By fiddling with the genetic toggles of birds, scientists might be able to reverse-engineer a dinosaurian creature

The European hamster is bigger than the petstore variety and has a black belly

To Save a French Hamster

A European Union court has ruled that France should be doing more to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace

Star-Spangled Banner demonstration

Events June 13-17: Star-Spangled Banner, Sketch Time, Honeybees, Laundry and Balloons

During the week of June 13, spend an afternoon drawing, get some old school laundry tips, recreate a piece of American history and much more

A hanging scroll painting depicts Yinti, Prince Xun (1688-1755) and his wife.

Men of China’s Qing Dynasty Chose Trophy Wives to Flaunt Their Wealth

See lavish paintings and rare jewelry at the from 18th-century China

A Superman comic book

Superman Turns 73

Superman made his debut appearance in the June 1938 edition of Action Comics, and has since captured the hearts of Americans

In the midst of Broadway's musicals, there's a little food to be found. Times Square Fisheye.

Seven Snarfable Showtunes

In anticipation of Sunday’s Tony Awards ceremony, here are some of Broadway’s tastiest food-related songs

Trees grow at high elevations in the Rockies, fed by melting snow.

Rocky Mountains Losing Their Snow

A new study finds an unprecedented decline in snowpack in the West

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Hidden Dinosaurs and Confusing Teeth

After many false starts, scientists finally understood the first fossils of horned dinosaurs

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