WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Wednesday it will prioritize giving grant money to ...

As museums across the country face pressures to scale back a purported “overemphasis” on difficult subjects like slavery, experts warn such moves could diminish American exceptionalism and limit ...

Andrew Dreelin, an ornithologist with the Smithsonian's Great Plains Science Program, identified fascinating connections ...

It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, ...

The big mystery scientists have faced for years is how these birds, all of which cannot fly today, ended up on continents ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient bones in a Vietnamese cave. The remains may belong to one of the world’s earliest ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Vietnam could belong to one of the world's earliest known victims of homicide.

Archaeologists have discovered 40 tombs in Iraq after severe droughts lowered water levels in the country’s largest reservoir, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. The tombs were discovered along the ...

Views Staff Writer Ava Werner argues that dystopian books teach vital lessons on civic duty, history and free speech.

A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the United States. And unlike the Smithsonian Institution, the privately funded National Center for Civil and Human ...