And it’s exactly what happened this year the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. As 2025 comes to a close, here are a few bite-sized stories that capture both the ...

Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

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This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer ...

Smithsonian magazine's picks for the best books about travel of 2025 include Adventures in the Louvre, On the Hippie Trail ...

The symptoms were strange. They were the same across multiple oak species—white, swamp white, black, red, post, shingle, ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

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The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...

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