LOS ANGELES — New in the Apple Store this month is the Smithsonian Channel's iPad app, which lets you play videos from the Channel's extensive programming. It includes short clips for a quick burst of ...

The Smithsonian museums are facing a White House deadline to turn over documents on their plans for the country’s 250th ...

Dominant male rhinos use dung as a kind of signpost–a thinly-veiled threat to rivals to stay away from their territory, backed up by hormone-infused fecal proof of their health, status, and dominance.

‘Don’t fly too close to the sun’ is a warning lifted from the story of Icarus. Join historian Bettany Hughes as she unpacks the myth, and visits Icaria–the island whose name was inspired by the ...