Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in already infected ...

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets last week. Three-year-old ...

Blast off with Sidedoor and AirSpace podcast to learn about the Voyager Golden Record and the decisions behind the out of this world mixtape.

Fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (Volumes II and III). Photo credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: S1982.84.1-5 ...

Images from the ceremony are available for download below. Please credit Ronald Flores, RFDCphoto, courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Recent reports about the Smithsonian removing the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and National Museum of African American ...

Visitors at an IlluminAsia event in 2024.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will present its 10th Great Americans Medal to Ava DuVernay May 8 for her extraordinary contributions to the nation as a director, writer, ...

The Chinese Lunar New Year begins January 29, 2025, and starts the Spring Festival season that ends fifteen days later on the evening of the Lantern Festival.The Chinese zodiac rotates through a ...

A Bennu sample on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History after it was unveiled to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. James Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian.

This spring, visitors to some Smithsonian museums may find themselves greeted by a 4-foot-tall, wide-eyed robot named Pepper. Humanoid Pepper robots have been deployed in six Smithsonian spaces in an ...