https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/latest_articles/RSS feed for with the latest articlesenSat, 16 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discover-the-origins-of-a-psychedelic-drug-synthesized-by-a-swiss-chemist-who-claimed-it-found-and-called-me-180985208/Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in human history, experiencing a kaleidoscope of colors and images in a sleepy Swiss citySat, 16 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chatgpt-or-shakespeare-readers-couldnt-tell-the-difference-and-even-preferred-ai-generated-verse-180985480/A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and themesFri, 15 Nov 2024 20:55:10 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/before-the-titanic-sank-a-cheerful-passenger-wrote-in-a-postcard-that-he-was-leaving-for-the-land-of-stars-and-stripes-180985479/A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction block, where it could sell for up to $12,600Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:19:57 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-addresses-rumors-about-health-of-starliner-astronaut-on-the-international-space-station-again-180985478/The space agency’s chief health and medical officer refutes claims that Suni Williams, who is on the unexpectedly extended Boeing Starliner mission, appears unhealthily thinFri, 15 Nov 2024 19:19:17 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-mysterious-12000-year-old-pebbles-may-be-early-evidence-of-wheel-like-tools-archaeologists-say-180985471/Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest examples of rotational technologyFri, 15 Nov 2024 17:54:01 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pompeii-introduces-new-limits-on-daily-visitors-to-protect-the-ancient-city-from-overtourism-180985465/A maximum of 20,000 people will be allowed to enter each day in an effort to protect the historic site in Italy, where misbehaving tourists are becoming a persistent problemFri, 15 Nov 2024 16:45:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-fossil-teeth-from-an-11-year-old-reveal-clues-to-why-humans-developed-an-unusually-long-childhood-180985475/Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously thought, according to a new studyFri, 15 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/historians-thought-this-was-a-medieval-site-linked-to-king-arthur-it-turned-out-to-be-a-mysterious-monument-built-4000-years-earlier-180985470/Researchers have excavated King Arthur's Hall, a rectangular enclosure in southwest England, and determined that it dates to at least 3000 B.C.E.Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/tour-the-great-golden-state-of-california-with-these-15-photos-180985467/California offers lovely beaches, forests, deserts, mountains and more!Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/discover-the-remarkable-paintings-of-three-japanese-americans-whose-life-stories-are-told-through-their-work-180985472/A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II incarcerationFri, 15 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000