The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum announces its program of innovative history resources and events to commemorate Women’s History Month. These include the launch of the Discoverability ...

U.S. dodged a bird flu pandemic in 1957 thanks to eggs and dumb luck – with a new strain spreading fast, will Americans get ...

A Civil War solider used hardtack in a crafty way.

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Mother Tongue Film Festival is celebrating its 10th year with 10 days of programming: four days of in-person and six days of ...

Reptile Discovery Center staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Washington, D.C., are mourning the loss of Murphy, a 26-year-old male Komodo ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Image ...

American Trail keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) are mourning the loss of Gunther, a 33-year-old male gray seal who died Jan. 18. The median life ...

Cutting-edge technology designed to track and understand the secret, underground lives and behavior of the elusive black-footed ferret has been deployed in the wild for the first time. Believed to be ...

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Speech given at the National ...