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 ...

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 ...

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

The loose timekeeping of the pre-industrial era, which was based on natural cycles of the day and ... While most of the portraits on view at the AGO don’t depict specific women, Newton’s ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

It definitively showed that Andromeda was far outside of our Milky Way ... universe in a debate one evening at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. He maintained that the ...

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.