An Italian clan's curious insensitivity to pain has piqued the interest of geneticists seeking a new understanding of how to treat physical suffering
Lavish paintings, sumptuous court robes, objets d’art tell the stories of Empress Cixi and four other of the most powerful Qing dynasty women
Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that the species long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes deserve a new place in the human story
The first pictures of the sky were taken on glass photographic plates, and these treasured artifacts can still help scientists make discoveries today
As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over another substance of a similar hue: the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony
An engineer at the University of Auckland asks an important question: What can seamless human-computer interfaces do for humanity?
She was a megawatt performer, one of the best Broadway dancers of the last century, but it’s his influence that is remembered today
Using a strategy called dynamic ocean management, researchers are creating tools to forecast where fish will be—and where endangered species won't be
Cat-loving paleontologist answers your questions in the National Museum of Natural History's YouTube series, "The Doctor Is In."
Two decades before the first American woman flew to space, a group of female cosmonauts trained in Star City of the Soviet Union
Wide-ranging research compares astronaut Scott Kelly to his earthbound twin brother, Mark
Rumors of secret alliances, bank deals, and double-crossings were rampant in early American elections
From Vidalia onions to beer cheese, the American South has culinary celebrations covered
The Smithsonian’s Gus Casely-Hayford says the precious metal was both a foundation for massive West African empires and a cultural touchstone
Dan Giusti used to serve $500 lunches. Now he's working to deliver meals on a kid's budget.
Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
The new Folkways album "Songs of Our Native Daughters" draws spiritually from slave narratives and other pre-19th-century sources
The Event Horizon Telescope reveals the silhouette of a black hole at the center of a galaxy 55 million light-years away
Written in the language formalized by Sequoyah, these newly translated inscriptions describe religious practices, including the sport of stickball
The pioneer of bioinformatics modeled Earth’s primordial atmosphere with Carl Sagan and made a vast protein database still used today
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