Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips and it's all made possible by rocks formed millions of years ago, deep underground.

Explore a selection of dinosaur fossils and related artifacts in the National Museum of Natural History's collections. Learn the story of O.C. Marsh and how his unquenchable thirst for fossils ...

Don Eddy once described himself as “an obsessive-compulsive precisionist.” The execution of his hyperrealistic paintings requires tremendous discipline and scrupulous attention to detail. His process ...

Memory is a repository for history—one that can be unlocked by the voice. But living memory can be lost forever if it is not recorded. That is why historians across the Smithsonian are racing to ...

In 1974, the U.S. Senate dress code forbade women from wearing pants. Emily Card, then a legislative fellow, was too busy drumming up support for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to comply. “By the ...