Smithsonian Magazine

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Accumulated So Many Microplastics They Might Be Changing the Color of the Ocean

Satellite data suggests water in and around the huge area filled with human-made debris has become more blue-green over the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

While Cleaning Out Her Aunt’s Manhattan Apartment, a Woman Found a Long-Lost Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Buried Beneath Fur Coats in the Closet

Painted in 1930, "Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I" sat in the closet for 40 years, with only a single photograph, by O'Keeffe’s ...
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Neolithic Cannibalism Wasn’t an Act of Desperation. Almost 1,000 Skeletal Fragments From Caves in Southern Spain Show How Eating Human Flesh Was a Continual Prac…

More than five decades after hordes of prehistoric bones were unearthed from three caves in Granada, new forensic techniques ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Newly Digitized Oral History Transcripts Reveal 89 Women Who Shaped American Art, Some Identified by Their Own Names for the First Time

The Smithsonian Archives of American Art digitized 89 oral history transcripts of women artists, historians, patrons, and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Inside the National Zoo’s Aquatic Environments, a Dedicated Team Keeps the Water Clean, Cool and Salty

Hidden behind the scenes, life support system (LSS) staff are responsible for one of the most important jobs at the ...