With the devastating 1918 pandemic in mind, US health officials saw an outbreak in Asia and swung into action. What happened offers lessons for today.
Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to draw the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record.
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing organic molecules.
The largest ever giraffe tracking study shows how these massive animals are responding to human pressures across many different habitats throughout Africa.
Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis reveals the lineage of one 1800s ‘woolly dog’ from the Pacific Northwest.
Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.
A pre-World War II US Navy plan for a modular floating platform has developed into a key lifeline in Gaza and at disaster sites around the world.
2024 marks 25 years since NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory started detecting X-rays from energetic astronomical events.
The best spots on the Moon for lunar bases are the same spots where scientists want to build telescopes − can these two interests coexist?
Collaborative research by archaeologists, environmental scientists and tribal elders combines science and Indigenous knowledge to tell the story of centuries of life at a glacier’s edge.
Tight security may be the reason that the GOP Convention isn’t filled with the homemade, and often wacky, stuff that’s usually found by Smithsonian political ephemera curators at the event.
It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.
Will there be Minnesota hot dish hats worn at the upcoming Democratic National Convention? Curators from the Smithsonian will be there, looking for both routine and unconventional campaign items.
The items people wear, buy and wave at the convention are key pieces of American history.
The Whigs started holding political conventions in the 1830s − and historians from the Smithsonian who visited the GOP and Democratic conventions this year found the tradition is still very vibrant.
For years, researchers have wondered what energy source allows the solar wind − a projection of charged particles from the Sun − to rush by at hundreds of miles a second.
Debates are moments in time, but even years later, key items can evoke their history and reinforce their importance in American democracy.
The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers and widespread disinformation. It wasn’t 2024.
Ancient fossil footprints are the first evidence of two different hominin species − Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei − living in the same place at the same time.
Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, including unify the country and establish the speaker’s qualifications for the job.
In emergencies, dumping ocean water on fires may be the best option. But seawater can have long-term effects on equipment and ecosystems, as a novel coastal experiment shows.
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the air are making plants grow larger and faster, but diluting their nutritional content. This could threaten the health of herbivores worldwide.
The first widespread agreement across the American Colonies dealt with economic independence from British trade and taxation.
These small galaxies are either crammed with stars or they host gigantic black holes. The data astronomers have collected continues to puzzle them.
Only male crickets have wing structures that produce sound, but females are very good at following the signal.
Iran increasingly electronically surveils women looking for headscarf violations, UN report warns
Philippine ex-President Duterte set to appear in Hague courtroom to face 'war on drugs' charges
Farmer accuses Trump of gambling with his livelihood
Thai interest rate of 2.0% robust for circumstances, cbank chief says
Millions of people celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors
Olympics-Olympians make climate plea to IOC presidential candidates
Airlines that have updated their lithium battery policies
