art New smartphone app lets museum visitors point at art, then see artists discuss the work Andrea James
Entertainment Major exhibition of Nam June Paik, "father of video art," opens at Smithsonian in December 2012 Xeni Jardin
History Aviation museums' "most wanted list" of cool aerospace artifacts lost to history David Pescovitz
animals Panda cub! The best of the National Zoo's panda cam videos as picked by the curators and panda keeper David Pescovitz
photography Sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson re-creates his presidential portrait Rusty Blazenhoff
Science NASA delivers first grant in 30 years to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence David Pescovitz