Both ancient human species showed signs of simultaneously using their hands to move around – such as by climbing trees – as ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is pushing for an investigation into the impacts of a recent executive order targeting the operations of ...

The new and renovated galleries will be unveiled as part of the museum's $1 billion renovation. How to get free, timed-passes ...

Ava DuVernay accepted the Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal while voicing support for the African American museum.

At a ceremony at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, Hawaiians honor Chief Keaoua Kekuaokalani. He ...

In less than 20 years, in 2044, a majority of the U.S. population will be comprised of racial and ethnic minorities.

Alexis Ellison, a senior accounting and foreign languages double major from Woodland, will study Mandarin in Taiwan for eight ...

President Trump and Crown Prince MBS sign a $142 billion arms deal, enhancing Saudi Arabia's military capabilities and ...

After art critic and photographer Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn.

Maryland Humanities will launch the Maryland tour of Spark! Places of Innovation, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, at the ...

A well-preserved 47-million-year-old cicada fossil has been discovered, and it is so detailed that even the veins in its ...

Letter writers discuss unused USAID food for starving children, Virginia governor’s race and ‘censorship’ by the Trump ...