Designing Buildings For Hot Climates, Cold Ones and Everything in Between
A decade's worth of sustainable projects by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his firm, BIG, are now on display at the National Building Museum
Three Stanford Graduates Are Matching Unused Prescriptions With Patients Who Need Them
Unopened drugs—billions of dollars worth—are trashed in this country each year. What if they instead went to the 50 million who can't afford them?
10 Victorian Inventions That Never Quite Took Off
Flops from a "knife and fork cleaner" to a "cholera belt" provide a curious look at life in 19th century England
Eight Innovators to Watch in 2015
From food science and robotics to solar tech and sustainable architecture, these folks are poised to do big things
"Unbroken"'s Louis Zamperini Crashed Into the Pacific on May 27, 1943. Here is the Missing Air Crew Report
The National Archives holds a record with details of the downing of the former Olympian's B-24 bomber that left him lost at sea for 47 days
The Smithsonian Design Museum Tells the Story of User-Centered Design Through 120 Beautiful Products
A thermostat, a wheelchair, a prosthetic arm and razors are all a part of "Beautiful Users," now on display in New York City
Turning Shipping Containers Into Urban Farms
In a clever recycling experiment, the startup Local Roots Farms is growing organic, hydroponic produce in America's food deserts
A Football Stadium Covered in This Solar Cloth Could Power a Small Town
Perry Carroll, founder of the Solar Cloth Company, has integrated super-thin photovoltaics into flexible fabric
Generating Power One Step At a Time
The Pittsburgh-based startup SolePower is developing an insole that collects kinetic energy as you walk to power your mobile phone
Eight Tech Gifts for Early Adopters
From a personal drone and a 3D printer to sleep and sport performance trackers, these gadgets will please the technophiles in your life
John Smith Coined the Term New England on This 1616 Map
After Jamestown, Smith pushed the English to settle the northeast, identifying Plymouth as a suitable harbor four years before the Pilgrims landed there
The Smithsonian Celebrates American Invention at This Weekend's Innovation Festival
How do you bring an idea to life? The inventors of new technologies will share their stories at a two-day event at the National Air and Space Museum
Women of the Early 1900s Rallied Behind Beautiful, Wartless Witches
Women looking to work, vote and marry whomever they wanted turned the Halloween icon into a powerful symbol
The World Is What It Is Today Because of These Six Innovations
In a new book, Steven Johnson describes the many technologies that glass, refrigeration and other fundamental inventions have made possible
What Will We Leave in the Fossil Record?
Artist Erik Hagen considers the remnants of modern human life that may be found in rock strata millions of years from now
Secretive Victorian Artists Made These Intricate Patterns Out of Algae
A new documentary profiles Klaus Kemp, the sole practicioner of a quirky art form that is invisible to the naked eye
College Students Studied These Mail-Order Sea Creatures in the Late 1800s
Restored glass models of marine invertebrates, made by artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Warren Harding’s Love Letters Finally Give Us Something to Remember Him For
Locked away for 50 years, the secret correspondence reveals a steamy relationship between the future president and his mistress
These Sculptures of Giant Tomatoes Are Ripe For the Picking
What physical traits do humans find desirable? Artist Jessica Rath looks in her grocery store's produce section for answers
A Two-Headed Shark and Other X-Rayed Beauties at the Smithsonian
Sandra Raredon's x-rays of fish specimens are critical records for scientists studying various species. And, as works of art, they are breathtaking
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