Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong’s Restored Spacesuit Put Back on Display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museumsmithsonianmag.com - Jay Bennett It’s difficult to think of a garment that carries more historical significance than Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit, still dusted with grains …
Smithsonian Audubon Photography Award Winners Show the Breathtaking Beauty of Wild Birds | Smart News | Smithsoniansmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz One frosty morning, Kathrin Swoboda was walking through Huntley Meadows Park near her home in Alexandria, Virginia, when she spotted a red-winged …
Exoplanets First Moon-Forming Disk Detected Swirling Around an Exoplanetsmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley Last month, astronomers announced that they’d snapped a rare image of two planets forming around a young, 6-million-year-old star about 370 …
Storage Ideas A Literary Vandal Is Ripping Pages Out of Books and Putting Them Back on Shelvessmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly In recent months, the seaside town of Herne Bay, Kent, has been plagued by a string of unusual crimes: a vandal is targeting a local library and a …
Giraffes One of the Largest Subspecies of Giraffes Is Declared Endangeredsmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley Conservationists have been sounding the alarm bells on giraffes for several years. In 2016, the IUCN listed giraffes as a whole as vulnerable, the …
Nina Simone Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Is Under Threat. This Campaign Aims to Save itsmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz Nina Simone was born in a small, clapboard house in Tyron, North Carolina, in 1933. It was there that Simone began teaching herself to play piano …
Play buttonPoker This Poker-Playing A.I. Knows When to Hold ‘Em and When to Fold ‘Emsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly A computer program called Pluribus has bested poker pros in a series of six-player no-limit Texas Hold’em games, reaching a milestone in artificial …
Dinosaurs 140 Million Years Ago, a Bird-Like Dinosaur Swallowed a Lizard Whole. Here’s Why Its Final Meal Is Exciting Researcherssmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley About 140 million years ago a microraptor—a bird-like dinosaur with four feathered wings—was zipping around in what is today northeastern China when …
History A Nellie Bly Memorial Is Coming to Roosevelt Islandsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly In September 1887, Nellie Bly assumed the persona of “insane girl” Nellie Brown to go under cover at the notorious women’s asylum on Blackwell’s …
Fossils This Prehistoric Bird Had Weirdly Long Toessmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz During the age of the dinosaurs, Myanmar’s Hukawng Valley was filled with trees that oozed sticky resin, which often trapped plants and small …
Mussels Mussels’ Sticky Threads Could Inspire Ways to Clean Up Oil Spills, Purify Water and Moresmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley When mussels are mentioned, a nice plate of moules-frites might come to mind, but some bivalves are peskier than they are tasty. Dozens of mussel …
Snakes See a Python Swallow a Crocodile Wholesmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly During a recent trip to Queensland’s Mount Isa, kayaker Martin Muller encountered a gruesome sight: an olive python feasting on an Australian …
Neanderthals This 210,000-Year-Old Skull May Be the Oldest Human Fossil Found in Europesmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz In the late 1970s, two fossilized human crania were discovered in the Apidima cave in southern Greece. Researchers were somewhat befuddled by the …
Sleep Little, Transparent Fish Show Sleep Is At Least 450 Million Years Oldsmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley One of the big, unsolved mysteries in science is exactly why humans and other animals sleep. There are plenty of hypotheses: it’s believed sleep is …
History Remains of Napoleonic General Believed to Have Been Found in Russian Parksmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley The remains of one of Napoleon’s favorite generals appears to have been found in Smolensk, Russia, and it turns out locals may have been dancing on …
Pompeii Pompeii Is Home to Multiple Undetonated World War II Bombssmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly In 1943, Allied forces received reports of a German division encamped in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. “Obliged to treat [the ruins] as a …
Zoology Thanks to Light Pollution, We’re Losing Nemosmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly Light pollution has a devastating effect on clownfish populations, a new study published in the journal Biology Letters suggests. As Jenny Howard …
History New National Marine Sanctuary Will Protect Maryland’s ‘Ghost Fleet’smithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz In a small bay of the Potomac River, just a short drive from Washington, D.C., sit the crumbling remains of more than 200 abandoned ships. Some date …
Drought California’s Drought Killed Almost 150 Million Treessmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley The epic drought that began in the state of California in December 2011 and only officially ended in March of this year will have many lasting …
Tate Modern Consider the Nature of Perception at Olafur Eliasson’s New Showsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly In 2003, Olafur Eliasson—with the help of 200 mono-frequency lights, projection and mirror foils, haze machines, aluminum, and scaffolding—recreated …
Volkswagen The Volkswagen Beetle Says Adiossmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley The last ever Volkswagen Beetle is rolling off the production line in Puebla, Mexico, today, before heading to go on display at a nearby Volkswagen …
Goats Goats May Be Able to Tell When Their Buddies Are Feeling Good or Baaadsmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz You may not guess it when they are happily gnawing on your shoelaces, but goats are smart, complex creatures. Their emotional intelligence is a …
Play buttonParrots What This Head-Banging, Body-Rolling Cockatoo Teaches Us About the Evolution of Dancesmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley Dancing seems like a decidedly human activity—it requires the technology to produce music, innate rhythm and an ability to respond to music. Most …
Washington Monument Apollo 11 Rocket Will Be Projected Onto the Washington Monument to Mark 50th Anniversary of Moon Landingsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly Next week, one of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic landmarks will be transformed into a launching pad for the 363-foot rocket that first brought man to …
History The ‘Chicago Defender,’ an Iconic Black Newspaper, to Release Its Last Print Issuesmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz For nearly 115 years, the Chicago Defender has been a vital news source for African Americans in Chicago and beyond. At a time when Black voices were …
History ‘Seditious’ Pressed Glass Jewel Found in 18th-Century North Carolina Tavernsmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley In 1776, British troops razed the town of Brunswick, an important pre-Revolutionary port on North Carolina's Cape Fear River. For decades, …
History Hundreds of Artifacts Looted From Iraq and Afghanistan to Be Repatriatedsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly In 2002, border officials at London’s Heathrow Airport intercepted a pair of wooden crates brought into the country via a flight from Peshawar, …
Mississippi River Toxic Algal Bloom Forces Mississippi to Close All Its Mainland Beachessmithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz Mississippi has closed all 21 of its mainland beaches due to a toxic algal bloom that has been creeping along the Gulf Coast. The Mississippi …
Acetaminophen Researchers Develop Plant-Based, Eco-Friendly Method to Produce Tylenolsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly Acetaminophen—the active ingredient in many Americans’ go-to pain reliever, Tylenol—typically stems from a surprising source: coal tar, a viscous …
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