A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday.

Smithson was one of the first researchers to systematically categorize calamine—or zinc as it was later called. In 1832, three years after Smithson’s death, French mineralogist François Sulpice ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

The Florida Museum of Natural History closed for renovations in March without a projected date for reopening. The proposed ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

A Smithsonian museum has delayed the opening of an exhibition that includes photographs taken after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to 2026 instead of this year as initially ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired the 2.33-carat “Winston Red Diamond,” one of the world’s largest fancy red diamonds. It will be unveiled to the public on ...

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The diamonds will be displayed in the Winston Gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. According to a Smithsonian statement announcing the donation, natural red diamonds ...

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Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) ...