a man who would become the Smithsonian’s second Secretary. Much like our very own Institution, it covered topics from art to zoology. Today, a new digital edition helps brings its knowledge to ...

That's why he left his legacy to America with instructions to create an establishment "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." More than 178 years and generations of donors later, the ...

Some roles require special knowledge or skill ... To learn more about this opportunity, visit the Encyclopedia of Life Translation Project. The Smithsonian seeks digital volunteers to assist in ...

The Blue Origin artifacts will debut in two renovated galleries opening at the National Air and Space Museum in 2026.

Learn about Violet Dandridge, Aime Motter Awl, Carolyn Bartlett Gast, and Marilyn Schotte: four women from the Smithsonian ...

In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of ...

All definitions in this encyclopedia are not only consistent in style because they are written by one person, Alan Freedman, but they get clearer all the time because they are routinely edited for ...

The Smithsonian just hard-launched “Campaign for Our Shared Future,” the institution’s largest fundraising initiative in its 178-year history. The network of 21 museums, 14 research centers ...

Here, the “Tree of Knowledge,” from which Eve eats the ... to the PBS show “Frontier House” and also noted in Smithsonian. In these small communities, students often helped maintain ...

Today marks the debut of a collaborative exhibit between NASA and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: the Earth Information Center, which will show the impacts of climate change ...

Zero-knowledge proofs are one of two types of "rollups" used in Layer 2 blockchains to summarize transactions on a Layer 1 chain. They are more complex than their optimistic rollup counterpart ...

With a collection of more than 147 million items, this robust Smithsonian museum on the National Mall attracts millions of visitors each year. Some of the museum's highlights include replicas of ...