Technology & Innovation

Explore Technology & Innovation across the Smithsonian through stories, events, and exhibitions. Use the filters to browse by format, then bookmark events and exhibitions to keep track of what you want to visit or attend.

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A recreation of the skylab workshop.
The National Air and Space Museum unveils seven new galleries this year. Our curators to highlight one standout artifact from their new galleries.
Dogs doing various tasks with balls.
Researchers devised a series of tests to measure your furry friend’s laterality, which can be associated with behavior, emotion and cognition.
A painting of a woman in black.
The oil painting, the work of “Scottish Colorist” FCB Cadell, just sold at auction for more than $250,000.
Construction vehicles working on an overpass above a highway.
Construction on the $20 million bridge in Siskiyou County began last year and is expected to be complete by this fall, with miles of eight-foot-high fencing along the highway to help funnel animals toward it.
A man staring at his laptop screen with his hands on his head..
The eye condition bixonimania doesn’t exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricated—despite obvious clues.
Visitors sit and walk around oversize graphics and displays with the exhibition’s title in a center space of the museum.’s second floor
In Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness features 250 objects that explore how Americans have worked together to pursue the ideals expressed in this foundational document.
An image of a very thin airplane with a sharp pointy noise flying high in a blue sky.
The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps.
A satellite image of part of the earth with a blue cloud on the right.
Researchers analyzed satellite imagery of the volcanic plume and found evidence that the potent greenhouse gas had broken down. The work could inform artificial interventions aiming to mitigate global warming, scientists say.