For a dentist, the narwhal’s smile is a mystery of evolution (2012)

The NASA Art Program

Is it Stealth? (2015)

The Missing History of the Explorer 1 Satellite

The Postal Service's trucks were built to last 20 years 32 years ago

The Taming of the Screw (2000)

Product Evaluation of the Zilog Z80-CTC (1979)

First Report of Habitual Stone Tool Use by Cebus Monkeys

Researchers have tracked a female whale shark from the eastern Pacific to the western Indo-Pacific for 20,142 kilometers (more than 12,000 miles), the longest whale shark migration route ever recorded.

Scientists Discover Evidence of Early Human Innovation, Pushing Back Evolutionary Timeline

The Caribbean's coral is environmentally stressed, according to the conclusions of a recently-completed 25-year survey.

Since 1950, zero oxygen zones went up more than fourfold in the ocean, and more than 10-fold in coastal waters

Small Plastics with Large Consequences

Wilbur Wright's Letter to the Smithsonian (1899)

Transcribing the Phyllis Diller Gag File

Using geolocators, Smithsonian scientists have, for the first time ever, tracked one of North America’s rarest birds―the Kirtland’s warbler―throughout its full annual cycle, revealing new and critical information for the bird’s future.

The Electrical Experimenter (1913)

New research details the medicinal potential of Bufonidae, a large tropical frog family

Smithsonian Releases Apollo 11 Command Module High Resolution Scans

Bill Gates: TRS-80 Model 100 “is in a sense my favorite machine” (1993)

Satellites used to detect and map associations between forests and and fungi

Rare cancer cells discovered in naked mole rats

A New Moon Rises: An Exhibition Where Science and Art Meet

Deer have malaria parasite -- the first in a North American mammal

Smithsonian botanist discovers new ground-flowering plant in Panama

Arthur Ganson, Metaphysics in Motion

Ancient Ink: Iceman Otzi Has World's Oldest Tattoos

Fossil Specimen Reveals a New Species of Ancient River Dolphin

Study reveals Agriculture and Fishing Cause Coral Reef Decline: "A new study [....] concludes that coral declines along the Caribbean coast of Panama began much earlier, in the early- to mid-20th century, and were related to the first wave of industrial agriculture"

Yogic Identities: Tradition and Transformation

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