One summer day in 2018, Sam Droege lowered his net and scooped up a few small bees buzzing around the blossoms of a chinquapin, a shrubby member of the chestnut tree family. Droege, a wildlife ...

The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved almost 30,000 ...

An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...

The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

The 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes contest is now closed for entries. Winners will be announced in late April. Return for more details as they become available. The final deadline for entries will ...

Gurney's original oil paintings have been shown in over 35 one-man exhibitions in museums such as the Smithsonian, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Delaware Art Museum.

Spend a semester in Washington, D.C., working side-by-side with some of the nation’s preeminent scholars and museum professionals. Smith College’s Smithsonian Internship Program enables qualified ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired the 2.33-carat “Winston Red Diamond,” one of the world’s largest fancy red diamonds. It will be unveiled to the public on ...

The artist shared a document that showed four people who died at the World’s Fair that year had their brains removed and sent to the Smithsonian after their deaths. The document emboldened Healy ...

Branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum dedicated to exhibiting American contemporary craft, celebrating makers taking both innovative and time-honored approaches to their work. The Renwick ...