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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Scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike anything they have seen before using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Astronomers suggest that these new objects may help solve not one, but two, long-standing questions.
Modern astronomy explores the Universe across nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays. Yet one important window remains largely hidden: the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV).
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A South Dakota-based instrument built to detect theoretical dark matter particles has sensed a particle interaction that’s difficult to explain with known phenomena.
This helicopter evacuation pod was once used to transport injured patients. Recently, it received extensive conservation treatment ahead of it going on display in a new Museum gallery.
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A new meta-analysis pooled data from more than one million people to look at the crossover between DNA and the “Big Five” personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
To consider photographs collected by our museum at the 10th anniversary of September 11 is to study intertwined histories of the past, present, and future.
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Scientists long attributed rain damage to physical abrasion and chemical degradation from acidic substances. A new study offers a third idea, which could help researchers develop longer-lasting coatings and preserve important objects.
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The magnetic North Pole has shifted over the millennia, leaving clues in the minerals that make up clay antiquities.