Sidedoor: Technology & Innovation

Dive into the shadowy world of turtle trafficking with the Sidedoor team.

Blast off with Sidedoor and AirSpace podcast to learn about the Voyager Golden Record and the decisions behind the out of this world mixtape.

How do you solve a modern bitcoin heist? Follow along with Sidedoor to find out.

Re-examine evidence from "The Last Great Train Robbery" to find out how U.S. Postal Inspectors tracked down a band of old-school outlaws.

Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips and it's all made possible by rocks formed millions of years ago, deep underground.

Explore the history of portraiture in America and a poisonous mystery.

Using artificial intelligence and good old fashioned research skills to discover the lost women of science.

Learn how one groundbreaking emoji is changing digital representation and the future of museum collections.

America's first large space telescope went from a "billion-dollar blunder" to one of history's most important scientific instruments.

Learn more about one of the most prolific African American inventors of the mid 20th century.

Artificial intelligence is built on human intelligence. Meet a very special robot who asks us to consider: whose image will be reflected in our AI future?

Hear a short story that imagines what happens when two little girls receive one of Edison’s talking dolls as a holiday gift.

Learn how expert seamstresses played a critical role in the first well-supported steps on the moon.

Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case.

Meet Muybridge, a photographer from the 1800s whose work paved the way for the invention of motion pictures.

The Algal Turf Scrubber harvests algae from large bodies of water and converts it to biomass, and is one of the marine ecology field’s best-kept secrets.  

A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian Sidedoor team.