Authors, scientists and others are offering fun livestream lessons and performances to keep kids engaged during isolation

A Smithsonian folklorist examines Jewish humor in the midst of a pandemic

From Vietnam to Antarctica, this year's winners bring you amazing glimpses of a changing world—and the indefatigable human spirit

Modified hospital designs have become necessary as the first wave of the pandemic tears through U.S. communities

Schools are shuttered, but kids can dance with New York's Ballet Hispánico and listen to a story from a certain former First Lady

“Care Package” showcases Asian American and Pacific Islander artists, writers and scholars as sources of solace during the Covid-19 pandemic

Why not use quarantine as an opportunity to have your homeschoolers master woodworking or engine repair?

The National Book Award winner's new book delves into matters of family grief and loss

Find the capital cities, working from a list of state names

The projects are helping Australia's drought-stricken rural towns find new life as outdoor art galleries

vitality

An abstract aerial view of a sand dune at sunset at Imperial Sand Dunes, Glamis, California.

Escalator

Man working on a new building

A young white bear from Manitoba while lazily enjoying a soft snowfall. It is morning in Hudson Bay, Canada, and the bear has just woken up. I succeeded in capturing it at an extreme temperature (-26 °), in a surreal silence, after observing its habits for a few days. The polar bear spends most of its time sleeping and lounging in the snow. It only moves when it's hungry. To hunt its favorite prey - the seal - it is willing to walk hundreds of miles. Its refined nose allowes the bear to sneak up on its prey with a paw when the seal rises to the surface to breathe.

Two girls run up the rounded walls of the Heydar Aliyev Center in the heart of Baku.

A Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) swimming by an iceberg in Antarctica on a snowy day.

Pastoral

Monuments in winter

Anaconda Glacial Cave in Iceland

This male Polar Bear is walking across the frozen fjord in search of an active seal breathing hole, in the midnight sun.

This photo was taken from the Tunnel View at Yosemite National Park. The photo is of Bridalveil Fall consumed by smoke due to controlled burning on the Yosemite Valley floor.

Снимок сделан в марте 2019 года во время похода на коньках по озеру Байкал

A wrestling contest held on the bank of the Ganges in Kolkata, India

Magenta skies over Monument Valley at sunset.

The hair-care magnate at the center of the new Netflix series 'Self Made' left her imprint on the city where she launched her career

In 1919, a second wave of cases of the previous year's flu lead to the sudden death of the hockey championship

Tour a gallery of presidential portraits, print a 3-D model of a fossil or volunteer to transcribe historical documents

In the hours after disaster struck Anchorage, an unexpected figure named Genie Chance came to the rescue

Smithsonian curator Eleanor Jones Harvey explains why this revolutionary 19th-century thought leader is due for a reconsideration

A museum director looks to the past to explain why 'Aloha' is as necessary as ever

The Beatles guitarist visited his sister in southern Illinois just months before he'd become world famous

In a nation under quarantine, chronicling a crisis demands careful strategy

Seventy-five years after a memorable mission, the B26 bomber 'Flak-Bait' undergoes preservation at the National Air and Space Museum

During his 20-year professional career, his boisterous style endeared him to fans but rankled traditionalists

Governments around the world grapple with how to deliver important guidelines on minimizing the spread of COVID-19

A newly discovered pyramid yields a baffling mystery: A royal tomb, usually reserved for kings, is found to contain a mystery woman. Who was she and why was she given such a great honor?

A female leopard is risking life and limb by trying to steal food from another male leopard. One wrong move and the male, a third bigger than she is, could make her pay.

The medieval English longbow first came to prominence during the Hundred Years War. In 1346, English forces used it to devastating effect to cut down a superior French army.

The smart tool gives users step-by-step instructions based on WHO’s handwashing protocol

Hadrian’s Wall was a 73 mile barrier stretching from coast to coast, splitting the warlike north of Britain from the more docile south. It was the Roman Empire’s way of imposing peace in a hostile land

A contemporary weapons expert is about to test a medieval war hammer on a steel breastplate from that era. The aim is to find out how much damage this fearsome instrument of death could deal.

Ted Rall omnium gatherum

Salt River First Nation in Fort Smith, N.W.T., is getting ready for a possible flood. 

The government of the Northwest Territories is releasing $8.7 million in federal funding to five airlines in the N.W.T. offering schedule-based passenger service.

The N.W.T. and Nunavut Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission says it filed multiple charges in the Nunavut Court of Justice under the Nunavut Safety Act on May 1.

From bikes to vinyl records to a remote controlled airplane, Yellowknifers looking to get rid of or find second-hand treasures have a new place to look.

Shadunjen van Kampen, a 21-year-old member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in Yukon, recently completed her written exams and flight test. She plans to be a commercial bush pilot. 

The government of the Northwest Territories has made an exemption on border restrictions for a veterinarian from Alberta to practice in the territory, after he received public and political support.

Schools were closed March 13 to reduce the risk of spread of the coronavirus, and there is no plan to reopen them by the end of the current school year in June.