From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the universe on scales big and small in 2025.

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Turning paper on a lathe sounds impossible, but the results are astonishing. This project puts the limits of craftsmanship to the test by compressing, gluing, and shaping stacked sheets of paper as ...

UC Riverside scientists have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie Ward, the host of the funny cult favorite “ Ologies” podcast, to share her picks for the ...

Three Homer artists were among 50 across Alaska named as 2025 Individual Artist Awardees. Brianna Allen, Carla Klinker and ...

A year of new treatments, new technologies, new ways to stay safe during disasters and new insights on the mysteries of the ...

The chaos created by the freezing and termination of billions of dollars of research grants has left trans academics especially vulnerable.

Helicopter parents. Lawnmower parents. Cosseting parents. Whatever you call them, they seem to be everywhere these days. He’s the parent who proudly helps his son take a science project out of the car ...

Easy: He uses a warp drive, a nifty little propulsion trick that allows the crew to exceed the speed of light by warping space and time. During one of these Friday night watch parties, as the ...