Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

Smithsonian scientists uncover the urgent conservation needs of the plants, which are critical to tropical ecosystems A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished ...

History of Chinese Medicine: being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present ... You have full access to this article via your institution.

The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and ... with the Smithsonian magazine, Bunch addressed future ...

The administration’s assault on the Smithsonian, ordering JD Vance to make institutions like the National Museum of African American History and Culture more American, plays right into such ...

Roughly 3,500 years ago, a woman was buried in a royal cemetery in present-day Greece ... have misread the women of the ancient past, Hauser tells Smithsonian magazine. “She’s doing a lot ...

Then, in 1964, the Smithsonian opened a new franchise — the Museum of History and Technology ... Smithsonian leaders interviewed for this article would hazard a prediction about what comes ...

Wright’s specimen had avoided recognition for decades thanks to a long history of misidentification. When the Smithsonian Institution first catalogued the lizard on February 1, 1861, curators ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

“It’s now a history museum that meets a world-class art museum, which is what makes it unique.” Before its brick-and-mortar location opened, the NPHM had been a “museum in the streets ...

Most claims about urine therapy are based on anecdotes or ancient texts with no robust scientific evidence to support the benefits of urine therapy. There is evidence to show that drinking urine ...