In her new book 'The Art of Looking Up,' Catherine McCormack captures stunning ceilings around the globe
The giant panda recently turned four years old and will soon move to China to breed
Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
Thomas Wiggins, an African-American musician marketed as ‘Blind Tom’, had a lucrative career—but saw none of the profits himself
Sealed and hidden within the sculpture were sacred texts and symbolic objects
Only about 1,000 of 3,000 individual reefs have been documented, but the Great Reef Census hopes to fill in the gaps
First spotted a decade ago, this elusive bird hangs out in the canopy of Borneo’s lowland forests
Smithsonian magazine's coverage of food, drink and their role in our culture
The city is celebrating the Mexican artist’s 50-plus year career with a massive exhibition
Eileen Collins talked to <i>Smithsonian</i> about her career in the Air Force and NASA, women in aerospace and more
WeWalk alerts users to obstacles at their body and face level, and can pair with a phone to give GPS directions and take voice commands
Invented by rink owner Frank Zamboni, the ice-clearing machine celebrates its 70th anniversary this year
More than 3,000 years ago, soldiers appear to have traveled hundreds of miles from southern Europe to fight in what is now northern Germany
The award-winning invention automates a 'chore that everyone hates'
Fires stoked worldwide anxiety, but Smithsonian forest ecologist Kristina Anderson-Teixeira offers a few practices for making a difference
Historian Ashley Rose Young shares research from the Smithsonian’s 23-year-long ‘American Food History Project’
The Shelby family is fictional, but a real street gang operated in Birmingham at the turn of the 20th century
Copenhagen's new green power plant with a ski slope is just the latest energy facility with tourist attractions
Beautiful and insightful, the illustrations of the German naturalist helped shape a new understanding of the world
The globe-trotting thief of the popular 1985 computer game is back at it in a second season of an animated Netflix series
Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States
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