Celebrate ten years of the festival with ten days of free programming Kirby Ewald For ten years, the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices Initiative has supported an event like no other: the Mother Tongue ...

Discover evidence of natural selection and evolution at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum (Meredith Bragg ... About Bioluminescence (02:38) A Map of Migrating Birds (00:25) ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion ...

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...

Co-founded with his wife Efsun Erkiliç, it’s part of a sprawling Frank Gehry-designed complex called The Grand. With the ...

Hours of exciting discoveries await at one of the biggest natural history museums on the planet.On Washington's National Mall, in a vast neoclassical palace next to the National Gallery of Art, the ...

In the U.S. there is no royalty, but as Jeffrey Post, curator emeritus of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, points out, “There is still a fascination about ...

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

A significant collection of Wes Wes (coral) has been returned to Australia by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the ... put island cuisine on the map "The sea and land do ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.