Children can build strategy, critical thinking and resilience during expert-approved play
It’s an agricultural moonshot, but scientists hope to make plants like corn, wheat and barley as heat and drought resistant as cactus
Friends of Pando, a nonprofit, is in the process of creating the largest image ever recorded of this single aspen clone in Utah
Proteins left behind on historic artifacts are revealing centuries-old secrets
A New Look for the National Air and Space Museum
The remarkable story of how the duo grew to become world-changing inventors and international celebrities
Often treated as a weed, the versatile prickly pear cactus could be the next big specialty crop
The predator's distinctive texture is the envy of engineers trying to maximize hydrodynamics
The algorithm scans electronic records and may reduce sepsis deaths, but widespread adoption could be a challenge
The inexpensive Maka Niu collects video and data at depths more than five times greater than trained scuba divers can go
A New Look for the National Air and Space Museum
Follow the October reopening of America’s most-visited museum with exclusive coverage from Smithsonian magazine
Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante founded the Bureau of Linguistical Reality to create words to help describe people's feelings about climate change
The 1909 Military Flyer is the centerpiece of the "Early Flight" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum
Some wavelengths of light in a range called far-UVC kill microbes in experiments and appear to be harmless to people
Seventeen-year-old Igor Klymenko worked on his invention while sheltering in a basement from Russian attacks
Drinking habits are changing, and vintners are exceeding tasters' expectations with new options stripped of their alcohol
The speeding-bullet design propelled Chuck Yeager into history
An 1836 blaze destroyed thousands of records that catalogued the young nation's ingenuity, but recent discoveries indicate that originals may still exist
Visitor data from the Smithsonian’s FUTURES exhibition provides a road map for how to navigate the world ahead
After decades of merely assisting doctors, are sophisticated machines ready to take charge?
Efficient, double electric pumps are only 30 years young, but contraptions for expressing breast milk have been around for millennia
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