Stories that spark curiosity from the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex.
Amphibian skin bacteria is more diverse in cold and variable environments according to global survey.
The epidemic of obesity-related diseases such as heart disease and type-2 diabetes may be a result of an advantageous process gone awry.
Saw-whet owls are barely the size of a human hand, with golden eyes, chocolate-brown feathers, and faces that have inspired some to call them “kittens with wings.”
Best known as the “Mother of the Hubble Space Telescope, Roman was not a “hidden figure,” but rather a recognized leader in her field.
First study of humpback whale survivors of killer whale attacks in the Southeastern Pacific show may be on the rise.
A month after 9/11, a curator visited Ground Zero. This is what she saw.
Twins! Long-lost slippers turn out to be a match for the Smithsonian's pair.
Every queen deserves a castle, and the ruler of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony is no different.
In spite of her elevated status in art history, Arbus’ most pivotal work has been largely overlooked until now.
Learn about the women astronomers who traveled 2,000 miles to study the July 1878 eclipse.
