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The Smithsonian returns with its 5th annual National Education Summit, a free three-day conference for educators preparing to ...

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.

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The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator famed for his detail-oriented research on fishes ...

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A silkscreen print of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands may have been put to the trash in a renovation, along with dozens of ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...