Researchers capture clear images showing a critical step in the evolution of plants.

Planet-forming particles swarm an unlikely star host.

Students display their winning entries to the 2013 Doodle 4 Google Contest.

Visitors and staff discuss favorite family recipes and home-cooked meals.

After 17 years underground, red-eyed Brood II cicadas emerge.

Curator Ross MacPhee discusses the science and ethical considerations of "de-extinction."

A breakthrough technique delivers a see-through brain.

Jenny Newell, Assistant Curator, Division of Anthropology

Rarely-seen artifacts revealed.

Plentiful ice in the Saturn system hints at its age.