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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Cambridge, MA (December 11, 2025)— Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the Sun’s atmosphere, a shifting, frothy boundary that marks where solar winds escape the Sun’s magnetic grasp. By . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
An Anishinaabe engineer invents and donates talking robots to spark a love of science and Indigenous languages in youth.
Take a look at some bite-sized stories about our science programs this year.
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Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes
How the smallest Airship drones are performing jobs that conventional drones can’t.
Cambridge, MA (March Date, 2026) — The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) $3.2 million to advance the key mirror technology for the new Lynx X-ray Observatory. Once launched, Lynx will . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
A new project from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals stunning connections between the vast universe and the microscopic world that we cannot see with the naked eye.
Artworks from millennia ago need special storage and care—but did you know that even contemporary artworks must be carefully preserved?