Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver lines to Smithsonian station or Federal Triangle station.

The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

Smithson was one of the first researchers to systematically categorize calamine—or zinc as it was later called. In 1832, three years after Smithson’s death, French mineralogist François Sulpice ...

Visiting a museum is another way of learning more about a place, which is why I look forward to stepping into one every time I travel to a new destination. Having been to the biggest museums in the ...

Academy eighth graders explored Washington, D.C., in February, visiting many iconic monuments to enrich their knowledge of ...

The Natural History Museum Ice Rink has now closed. After an incredible 16 years of ice skating at the Museum, the five-acre gardens on which the rink used to sit have now been transformed into a hub ...

Joseph Caputo is a former editorial intern for Smithsonian and now a freelance science writer and editor based in Boston, Massachusetts. Scientists at the Natural History Museum search for the ...

Even when we think we know everything, or that we think we have a grasp on what species occur in our environment, we don’t,” ...

The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1956, though the university began collecting and storing artifacts and specimens as early as 1837. Then called the Exhibit Museum, it was officially ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

VIEW a vibrant new art installation created by 450 school children and their teachers, on display now in the Courtyard ...