For nearly 700 years, samurai were Japan’s social elite, skilled not only in combat but also in politics and the courtly arts. To equip these warriors in accordance with their status required an ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

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.

"That's the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life," said the ...

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

One hypothesis is parthenogenesis occurs when females lack a male presence, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of ...

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

Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's Natural Museum of Natural History and co-lead author of the new mineral study, told the news conference: "We've never seen minerals like this in ...

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"There's a larger public consciousness now about what museums are," said Stephen Murphy, a senior lecturer in the Department of History ... at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art ...