As the keeper of memory for the nation, it is our privilege and responsibility to tell accurate and complete histories. As ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York will host the traveling exhibition “ Clearly Indigenous: ...

Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of ...

The Smithsonian pollen collection housed at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History contains more than 18,000 species, making it one ...

“An exciting implication of our study is that seismic shaking, caused by moonquakes generated by movement on young faults ...

Smithsonian Associates has produced educational and entertaining learning experiences since September 1965, when ...

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington Dulles ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

The extinction of the passenger pigeon is a poignant example of what happens when the interests of man clash with the interests of nature. It is believed that this species once constituted 25 to 40 ...

Roadside use of native plants / Water and Ecosystems Team, Office of Natural Environment, Federal Highway Administration ...