A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language in humans. When put in mice, it changed the way ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will unveil the Winston Red Diamond and Winston Fancy Color Diamond Collection Tuesday, April 1—an extraordinary showcase of some of the world’s ...

Robert Kennicott spent a lifetime collecting and analyzing specimens of the natural world, probing and pushing to see what they could reveal about life’s mysteries. Now, as his body lay along the ...

Casts of skulls are seen July 20, 2023, inside an exhibit of early human species inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in ...

Casts of skulls are exhibited in the Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in Washington. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Scientists have found genetics played a big ...

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...

Some social media posts said the bones were discovered in North America, while others suggested a North African locale.

Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still ...

Alaskan artist Ray Troll and Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Kirk Johnson will present ...

Danielle Olson is the managing editor for the Smithsonian’s Ocean Portal. She has a Master’s in Science Journalism and Communication from Stony Brook University and is an ocean lover and travel ...

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.