This year's top titles deliver strange animals, mouth-watering foods and biographies of unsung heroes
The natural light of insects and sea creatures can help doctors illuminate H.I.V. and even kill cancer cells
Architects and planners from the Netherlands are advising coastal cities worldwide on how to live with water
Researchers in Virginia studied how mowing, burning or animal grazing helped or hindered birds that stayed home for the winter
Art connoisseurs Aaron and Barbara Levine amassed a formidable body of the artist’s works; they'd like nothing better than for you to see it
At the centennial of the death of this captive animal, an archaeozoologist visited collections at the Smithsonian to examine human-animal relationships
Studying the stealthy strategy could help researchers develop new treatments for group A strep infections, which kill more than 500,000 people each year
A new movie plays off the narrative nature of a toy that has been capturing imaginations for 45 years
Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
In a salute to "Christmas Rappin,'" hip-hop chronicler Bill Adler tells the tale of how the famous rap recording came to life
The ecological benefits of animals like leeches, ticks and vampire bats are the focus of a new exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum
The island’s ‘custodian of historic wrecks’ shares his favorite underwater sites for divers to experience
A high rate of tooth turnover gave these prehistoric carnivores an edge
In our efforts to increase and diffuse knowledge, we highly recommend these 65 titles released this year
The list includes Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit, an Abraham Lincoln life mask and a coral skeleton
Reading proved a bedrock in a year that saw a new Smithsonian secretary and celebrations of dinosaurs, Apollo 11 and women's history
A new book, 'Light From the Void,' showcases the telescope’s images of nebulas, supernovae, supermassive black holes and more
In truth, massacres, disease and American Indian tribal politics are what shaped the Pilgrim-Indian alliance at the root of the holiday
By simulating liquid flows around the shells of ammonoids, scientists study how these ancient animals moved
Ann Hodges remains the only human known to have been injured by direct impact of a meteorite
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