A newly released 12-page guide, the Smithsonian’s latest collaboration with USA Today, invites readers to consider the ideals ...
Anne Taylor Brittingham. Anne Taylor Brittingham is the director of the Office of Educational Technology (OET). In this role, ...
Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar ...
The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...
On June 24, two quakes above magnitude 7 struck the northern part of the country only 39 seconds apart. While doublet ...
Meanwhile, other institutions offer their air-conditioned spaces as a way for residents and tourists to beat the heat ...
The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate ...
The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope was built to study dark matter and dark energy, but for one day last year, it ...
The Old Patent Office Building now houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. A new ...
A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...
Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in ...