How Food Brought Success to a Chef, a Cookbook Author and a Restaurateur
Historian Ashley Rose Young shares research from the Smithsonian’s 23-year-long ‘American Food History Project’
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Yes, Tropical Forests Tragically Burned This Summer, But Here’s What You Can Do
Fires stoked worldwide anxiety, but Smithsonian forest ecologist Kristina Anderson-Teixeira offers a few practices for making a difference
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This Robotic Trash Can Takes Itself to the Curb
The award-winning invention automates a 'chore that everyone hates'
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What a Warrior's Lost Toolkit Says About the Oldest Known Battle in Europe
More than 3,000 years ago, soldiers appear to have traveled hundreds of miles from southern Europe to fight in what is now northern Germany
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How the Zamboni Changed the Game for Ice Rinks
Invented by rink owner Frank Zamboni, the ice-clearing machine celebrates its 70th anniversary this year
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This Smart Cane Helps Blind People Navigate
WeWalk alerts users to obstacles at their body and face level, and can pair with a phone to give GPS directions and take voice commands
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What It Was Like to Become the First Woman to Pilot and Command a Space Shuttle
Eileen Collins talked to Smithsonian about her career in the Air Force and NASA, women in aerospace and more
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San Antonio Displays More Than 100 Sculptures by Artist Sebastian
The city is celebrating the Mexican artist’s 50-plus year career with a massive exhibition
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Food, Glorious Food

Smithsonian's coverage of food, drink and their role in our culture
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The Spectacled Flowerpecker Is Now Known to Science
First spotted a decade ago, this elusive bird hangs out in the canopy of Borneo’s lowland forests
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Massive Citizen Science Effort Seeks to Survey the Entire Great Barrier Reef
Only about 1,000 of 3,000 individual reefs have been documented, but the Great Reef Census hopes to fill in the gaps
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Rare, Centuries-Old Korean Buddhist Masterpiece Goes on View
Sealed and hidden within the sculpture were sacred texts and symbolic objects
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The Tragic Story of America’s First Black Music Star
Thomas Wiggins, an African-American musician marketed as ‘Blind Tom’, had a lucrative career—but saw none of the profits himself
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National Zoo Says Bye Bye to Bei Bei
The giant panda recently turned four years old and will soon move to China to breed
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Extra Thumb Discovered on Aye-Aye Lemurs, Giving These Primates Six Fingers
Used for gripping limbs, a “pseudo-thumb” makes the hands of these bizarre primates even creepier
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A Tour of the World's Most Spectacular Ceilings
In her new book 'The Art of Looking Up,' Catherine McCormack captures stunning ceilings around the globe
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A New Gene Editing Tool Could Make CRISPR More Precise
Prime editing offers a new way to make changes to DNA while avoiding some of the drawbacks and clunkiness of traditional CRISPR
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How Three Guys From Houston Are Cooking Up a Revolution in Texas Barbecue
A tiny suburban eatery is breaking all the rules to create some of the freshest-tasting grub on the horizon
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The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data
How a covert U.S. Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value
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Alcatraz's Captivating Hold on History
Fifty years after Native American activists occupied the island, take a look back at the old prison in San Francisco Bay
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Three Mexican-American Vintners Tell Their Stories
Alex Llamas, Gustavo Brambila and Amelia Ceja arrived as migrant workers and today thrive as entrepreneurs in the California wine industry
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