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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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

More than 157 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults, but where public view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers, and ...

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT IS WHAT IT IS BY VAUGHAN PENDRED ...