Smithsonian Magazine19h
How a Hawaiian High School Student Inspired Nine New State Animals
What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?
Smithsonian Magazine11h
See 15 Winning Images From the Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition
Beetles battling for mating rights, a bear stalking through the rainforest and a damselfly perched in front of a waterfall ...
Smithsonian Magazine12h
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games
The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...
Smithsonian Magazine14h
See the Haunting Stone Face of a Ptolemaic Statue Unearthed Near the Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria
The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...
Smithsonian Magazine13h
Man Finds Rare Trove of Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings and Manuscripts in His Father’s Attic
The papers connected to author A.A. Milne—including original drafts, illustrations, letters, poems and corrected proofs—sold ...
Smithsonian Magazine15h
Curiosity Rover Spots Ancient Water Ripples on Mars, Hinting at a Past With Shallow, Ice-Free Lakes
The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...
Smithsonian Magazine22h
Nearly 100 Washingtonians Died When a Theater Collapsed in One of the Largest Snowfalls Ever to Hit D.C.
The Knickerbocker Theater disaster, which took place on this day in 1922, killed 98 moviegoers and injured another 133 ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Researchers Identified a New ‘Supergiant’ Crustacean With 14 Legs—and They Named It After Darth Vader
In recent years, the deep-sea giant isopod has also become a seafood delicacy in Vietnam, where it was discovered ...
Smithsonian Magazine12d
The Liberation of Auschwitz—Where More Than One Million Jews Were Killed—Took Place on This Day in 1945
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Staffers Find a Japanese Hand Grenade From World War II at a Museum in Kentucky
After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Rare and Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The Vast Geographic Scope of Slavery Is Hard to Fathom. One Groundbreaking Exhibition Shows Its True Scale Around the Globe
At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "In Slavery's Wake" tells the international history of ...