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The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint is releasing a new coin honoring George Orwell on the 75th anniversary of his death. The £2 ...

A devoted keeper of the past, the National Museum of American History looks ahead to the Millennium Please support our site by disabling your ad blocker.

Built by Firefly Aerospace and Ispace, the pair of spacecraft will land separately in the moon's northern latitudes, conduct ...

This year, the Institution’s museums are bringing to the public everything from the flair of state fairs to the artwork of ...

Sara Hashemi is a science writer and fact-checker currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Sierra, The Body ...

It’s never too early to plan your getaways for the coming year, and you’ll find a rich range of choices among Smithsonian ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the ...

Urban planners from Mexico City to Toulouse are adopting the high-flying mode of transit. Will it catch on elsewhere?

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

In an extensive interview, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III spoke on the current political climate, the process of returning human remains from the Institution’s collections, the awe-inspiring ...

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" documented the killings of a family of four in rural Kansas on this day in 1959 Eli Wizevich A new book by historian William E. Leuchtenburg examines how the first ...