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 ...

As the keeper of memory for the nation, it is our privilege and responsibility to tell accurate and complete histories. As ...

The Smithsonian pollen collection housed at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Smithsonian’s National ...

Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of ...

“An exciting implication of our study is that seismic shaking, caused by moonquakes generated by movement on young faults ...

Smithsonian Associates has produced educational and entertaining learning experiences since September 1965, when ...

In popular culture, the Sopwith Camel was Snoopy’s plane of choice. The anthropomorphic dog in the “Peanuts” comic strip, one ...

Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W.

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 ...

Solar and lunar eclipses familiarly illustrated and explained, with the method of calculating them according to the theory of astronomy, as taught in New England colleges ...