Researchers believe the Maya gave the sacrificial female spider monkey to Teotihuacán as a gift years before relations soured | Continue reading
Our favorite titles this year invite viewers to worlds outside their own | Continue reading
"The Fabelmans" is a lightly fictionalized dramatization of the famous director's childhood | Continue reading
The pioneering glassmaker and octogenarian is the subject of a new Smithsonian Channel documentary | Continue reading
Children can build strategy, critical thinking and resilience during expert-approved play | Continue reading
Fishing nets laced with spice did nothing to deter the hungry marine mammals | Continue reading
From cookbooks to memoirs to food history, these ten titles will fill you up | Continue reading
Researchers disagree on whether the trend has implications for human fertility | Continue reading
A collection of notes from the musician to his girlfriend sold for nearly $670,000 at auction | Continue reading
As more activists target famous artworks, museums tighten security | Continue reading
The auction house cited a need for "further study" after experts noted similarities to another T. rex skeleton | Continue reading
Delegates agree to a loss and damage fund, but some experts worry the conference didn’t go far enough to address climate change | Continue reading
Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover consolidated immense power—and created the beginnings of the surveillance state | Continue reading
The uncrewed Orion spacecraft is equipped with 16 cameras that have been documenting its journey through space | Continue reading
New results show performers’ breath control can prevent disease from spreading | Continue reading
As the book turns 75, a new immersive exhibition brings the beloved children's story to life | Continue reading
The rap star has invested nearly $100 million to bring back the ambitious 1987 carnival | Continue reading
Low water levels have also stranded barge traffic and threatened drinking water | Continue reading
The performer's vivacious life takes the stage as part of the new Smithsonian exhibition, "Entertainment Nation" | Continue reading
An inside look at how popular culture represents who we are as a nation | Continue reading
The “no kill” product cultivated from animal cells has only small regulatory hurdles left before it can be sold in restaurants | Continue reading
History, heritage and gastronomy collide in this one-of-a-kind dining destination | Continue reading
From petrified tree forests to billion-year-old rock formations, both the young and young at heart will relish the state’s extraordinary natural phenomena | Continue reading
In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a Georgia women's rights activist and lynching proponent, temporarily filled a dead man's Senate seat | Continue reading
Two items represent two distinctive stages in the French queen's life | Continue reading
The words are engraved on a bronze hand that archaeologists unearthed in northern Spain | Continue reading
Fragments of the creature's pelvis and shell were discovered in the Pyrenees | Continue reading
The dig at the remote site is the first in more than 50 years | Continue reading
Moving accurately to a song’s beat was long thought to be a skill unique to humans, but new research suggests rats can do it, too | Continue reading
Architect Hiroshi Sugimoto is creating a welcoming new design for the Smithsonian’s mArchitect Hiroshi Sugimoto’s design includes an inviting new entry way | Continue reading
Biden announced plans for tackling the powerful greenhouse gas, which could go into effect by the end of next year | Continue reading
The Ireichō contains 125,284 names—and a new exhibition invites the public to honor them | Continue reading
Rare, carbon-containing rocks could have created conditions suitable for life on both planets, two new studies suggest | Continue reading
It’s an agricultural moonshot, but scientists hope to make plants like corn, wheat and barley as heat and drought resistant as cactus | Continue reading
Theodore Roosevelt's eldest daughter won the public's adoration with her rebellious antics | Continue reading
The government reversed its ban on "Joyland," though several scenes will be cut | Continue reading
The very young star is a window into our own solar system's past | Continue reading
For decades, fans of the 1983 classic movie have been flocking to the home and museum in Cleveland | Continue reading
New research suggests that personal sound amplification products like earbuds may help some people hear better in certain scenarios | Continue reading
The park is ending its reservation system, which critics say could lead to overcrowding | Continue reading
While looking for sea slugs in California, a marine ecologist came across the tiny, ten-millimeter mollusks | Continue reading
This year’s picture of the swirling plasma around the massive object's edges will help to reveal more about the galaxy’s history and evolution | Continue reading
For the first time, a trove of her previously unseen art is going to auction | Continue reading
After setting a record as the first woman of color to reach the South Pole unsupported last year, Preet Chandi is now tackling a 1,100-mile challenge | Continue reading
The samples come from students who were forced to attend government-run boarding schools | Continue reading
New research adds to the debate about when humans began cooking with fire | Continue reading
Treating fetuses for the enzyme deficiency might prevent early disease progression | Continue reading
New research adds insights to the debate over using industrial hemp as livestock feed | Continue reading