“We are thrilled to accept the F-15C into the museum’s collection,” said Michael Hankins, modern military curator at the ...

As the keeper of memory for the nation, it is our privilege and responsibility to tell accurate and complete histories. As has been recently reported, in July, a placard was removed from the National ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This introductory text is pulled from the 1957 Smithsonian Publication "Automobiles and Motorcycles in the U.S. National Museum" written by curator Smith Hempstone Oliver. At present a large number of ...

The “comics” or “funnies” can offer us a daily bit of humor and entertainment in the face of our otherwise regulated and monotonous existence. A comic artist’s success at creating laughter is a feat ...

These Open Access images from the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute are available to download and use as you wish — without asking!

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s newly accessioned F-15 will fly in to Dulles Airport and taxi to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ...

"Featuring more than 400 detailed photographs, maps and fossil illustrations." "Previously published as part of a larger volume, The world encyclopedia of fossils and fossil collecting."--T.p. verso ...