Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...
The bottle recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Poland National Maritime Museum in Gadansk Earlier this summer, researchers discovered a 200-year-old bottle of liquid while excavating a ...
The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...
After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...
The patriots weaponized Jane McCrea's death to demonize their enemies and paint Indigenous people as uniquely violent ...
"Pokémon Fossil Museum" in Chicago compares "fossil Pokémon" from the popular franchise to the real-world creatures they're based on ...
Scientists have identified a strange early crocodile relative that may have looked somewhat like a flightless bird ...
Around one-third of Americans take multivitamins, but researchers don't quite understand how they affect people's health. Galina Zhigalova via Getty Images Around one in three adults in the United ...
Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...
Fifty years ago the 1967 STP-Paxton Turbocar failed at the Indy 500. Mitch Feinberg Fifty years ago, the future rolled onto the grid at the Indianapolis 500. That future was low and wide and electric ...
Players from the University of Sydney and McGill University grapple over the quaffle during the 2014 Quidditch World Cup in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Richard Ellis/Demotix/Corbis France just beat ...
It’s easy to dismiss trees as inanimate features of the landscape, but these living, breathing organisms aren’t as stoic as they appear. Trees, it turns out, make all kinds of noises as they grow and ...
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