To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967 ...
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" documented the killings of a family of four in rural Kansas on this day in 1959 ...
Sid’s articles about Earth sciences ... Science News for Students and Engineering & Technology Magazine. Geologists have had to contend with bad luck, budget cuts and the race to the moon ...
This writer traced her roots back to a small Calabrian village and found 100 living relatives. A new Italian initiative makes ...
Langley tattoo artist Renata Vignati remembers the first person she provided this opportunity for healing. A shy, withdrawn ...
Jennie Rothenberg Gritz is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine. She was previously a senior editor at the Atlantic. Written by Smithsonian botanist W. John Kress, the book details more than ...
Ted Scheinman is a senior editor for Smithsonian magazine. He is the author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. Using DNA analysis and historic records, his work allows ...
April White is currently a senior editor at Atlas Obscura, and formerly was a senior editor for Smithsonian magazine. Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few ...
Lily Katzman is an editorial intern at Smithsonian magazine. She is a senior at Northwestern, where she studies journalism and Spanish. This year's National Cherry Blossom Festival will feature a ...
Daniel Fernandez is an editorial intern at Smithsonian magazine. He studies journalism and history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A new exhibition at the National Museum of ...
Lisa Bramen was a frequent contributor to Smithsonian.com's Food and Think blog. She is based in northern New York and is also an associate editor at Adirondack Life magazine. A relic from the ...
James Deutsch is a curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, where he has helped develop exhibitions on the Peace Corps, China and World War II, among others.