When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, several animal lineages have been growing their own food since long before ...

Stories of Race and American Sculpture” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines for the first time the role of sculpture in understanding and constructing the concept of race in the United ...

Kiwi feathers collected from across the U.S. and Europe will soon be winging their way home in a repatriation effort between the U.S. and New Zealand. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will open “NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of ...

This fossil palm leaf (Sabalites sp.), discovered in Petersburg Borough, Alaska, is on display in “The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Early approaches to voting by mail in the U.S. enabled military service members to participate in elections when wartime deployments took them away from their polling precincts. The Civil War led many ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) now has on view a larger-than-life, vibrant depiction of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion by artist Christopher Myers.

Lemelson believed that education was key to helping the US regain its place at the top of innovation and creativity in the world. In 1993, he and his wife Dorothy started the Lemelson Foundation to ...

In the fall of 2023, a space capsule landed in the Utah desert carrying something special: samples from an asteroid called Bennu. NASA sent a probe to the asteroid, in the first U.S. mission of its ...