The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

Sessions were held just outside the vault ... curator emeritus of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, points out, “There is still a fascination about kings ...

in collaboration with the National Museum of Natural History While this is not an exhibition at a Smithsonian museum, its National Museum of Natural History has provided some 60 objects ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Free Things To Do in DC with Kids! Families in the DC area sure are lucky: From free museums and nature centers to amazing ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...

The model, widely accepted today, is known as the “out of Africa” theory: The distant ancestors of present-day humans living outside ... the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

There’s a brisk underground trade in human remains. The justices pondered a medical research institution’s responsibility for stopping it.

A river runs through it: Spokane, Washington, is a marvelous synthesis of city and wilderness, historic and contemporary that ...