A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language in humans. When put in mice, it changed the way ...

Robert Kennicott spent a lifetime collecting and analyzing specimens of the natural world, probing and pushing to see what they could reveal about life’s mysteries. Now, as his body lay along the ...

Casts of skulls are seen July 20, 2023, inside an exhibit of early human species inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in ...

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

Some social media posts said the bones were discovered in North America, while others suggested a North African locale.

Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still ...

At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

Alaskan artist Ray Troll and Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Kirk Johnson will present ...

Binge-watch more than 60 feature films, documentaries, shorts, local productions, and animated films at the 26th annual DC ...