Humans have driver's licenses and fingerprints, but cows have nose-prints and zebras have "StripeCodes"
Seventeen seasons in, the show continues to demystify what it takes to 'make it work'
Curator Melissa Ho reflects on her upcoming exhibition exploring how American artists responded to the turbulence of the Vietnam War
Last week, the first baby wallaby to be born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in three decades poked its head out of its mother’s pouch
The fossils from the Cambrian Period include dozens of new species and provide a window into life more than 500 million years ago
Picking a perfect bracket is so unlikely that it will almost certainly never occur, even if March Madness continues for billions of years
'Abraham’s Oak' memorializes a pilgrimage site that the artist likely visited during his travels in the 1890's
These layered works testify to African-American history
From red to green to indigo, each color provides festival-goers with a sense of beauty, ritual and tradition
You asked, we answered
Robert Reid, then the mayor of nearby Middletown, recalls the partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor more than 40 years ago
A tin of hair conditioner in the Smithsonian collections reveals a story of the entrepreneurial and philanthropic success of a former washerwoman
Featuring titans of Texas medicine, the race was on to develop the cutting-edge technology
With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote
The ghosts of Nazis, French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors still inhabit the grand building on Paris’ famed Left Bank
An upcoming Smithsonian exhibition, “Votes For Women,” delves into the complexities and biases of the nature of persistence
As Virginia Tech's Kurt Luther perfects his facial recognition software Civil War Photo Sleuth, the discoveries keep coming
Fires can leap rapidly from building to building and even cause extreme weather events such as pyrocumulonimbus storm clouds
Police today increasingly embrace DNA tests as the ultimate crime-fighting tool. They once felt the same way about fingerprinting
We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample the splendid desolation of the emperor's exile under a scornful British governor
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