Explore Jim Henson's puppets and Muppets in the Smithsonian's collections along with related collection items. Learn their backstories, their missions, and the inspiration for each of them. National ...

A small but mighty team in Kahnawà:ke has dedicated the last two decades of their careers to preserving and revitalizing their language, using puppets to catch the attention of their youngest ...

In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground, containing some 50 “exceptionally well-preserved ...

Valeriy Dzekh ran a popular puppet theater in Kharkiv before the war, and is now performing a new play about a man who loses and then regains his self-confidence. Ukrainian soldiers are being ...

The 27ft figure, called Lilly, has suddenly sprung up in Rochdale town centre - but its imposing presence has stirred up controversy. The giant baby has been described as 'creepy' and the 'ugliest ...

Decide what your puppet show is about. Choose a simple story and get your friends and family to join in. Think about your puppet voice. What does your puppet sound like? Put your puppet centre ...

Despite billions in subsidies, the US and its allies face an uphill battle to break China’s dominance in the rare earth minerals market. China discovers 4.96 million tonnes of rare earth ...

Dozens of puppets have been paraded through the streets of a Kent town marking the end of more than a week of festivities. The mesmerising display of world-class creative creations attracted ...

Puppets can add an exciting dimension to a performance. Puppets can be used for practical reasons as well as artistic ones. For example, a production that requires a dog might use a dog puppet ...

Those conditions, I reasoned, were rare. How people think about rare events—especially unwelcome ones such as traumatic medical episodes or distressing diagnoses—seems to vary considerably ...

One of the strange, hard-to-grasp questions that quietly haunts a lot of games is whether we are the people we are controlling. Whether we are meant to be those people, anyway. Are we Mario, or ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.