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 ...

Playing with a homemade sock puppet is lots of fun and can also develop your little one's speaking and social skills. Making up fun characters can help you to be expressive as you tell stories and ...

As depopulation deepens around the world, a small village in Japan turns to puppets to stitch their community back together. Ichinono is only one of several “doll villages” in Japan where life ...

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 ...

The immune system responds to viral infections by introducing a complex interplay of immune cells and factors, whose goal is to eliminate the intruding pathogen. One such effector cell in the ...

Famous toy factory Pelham Puppets is being remembered by fans to mark 75 years since it first opened. Founded by Bob Pelham in 1947, it became one of Marlborough's biggest employers. The company ...

Joseph Shapiro is a NPR News Investigations correspondent. Shapiro's major investigative stories include his reports on the way rising court fines and fees create an unequal system of justice for ...

Joseph Menn joined The Post in 2022 after two decades covering technology for Reuters, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. His books include "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original ...

Greg Joseph’s motto is that one kick doesn’t define him. If it did, Joseph’s picture would appear next to the term “bad timing.” After the Giants converted a fourth down on an 11-play ...

By Trip Gabriel Joseph H. Reich, a financier and philanthropist who with his wife created one of New York City’s first independently run public schools, proving that impoverished students could ...

Joseph C. Sternberg is a member of the Journal's editorial board and the Political Economics columnist. He joined the Journal in 2006 as an editorial writer in Hong Kong, where he also edited the ...