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A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

The general public gets its first glimpse Friday of Qing Bao and Bao Li, the National Zoo’s newest giant pandas.

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...

The Natural History museum offers an inside look at the dramatic rescue of men trapped half a mile underground in a Chilean copper mine With the help of Smithsonian model makers, the tribal nation ...

Visitors at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will soon get a double dose of President-elect Trump, as the museum installs a second photograph of him ahead of the ...

The closures affect prominently the sites along the National Mall, where most of the Smithsonian's free-admission museums are found. In past years, Smithsonian entities such as the National ...

In order to cut down on the amount of traffic in the area, most of the museums on the National Mall in D.C. will be ... The National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum and its ...

On the evening of Dec. 22, after listening to the enchanting music of the Desert Chorale at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, my wife Joan Borysenko, our local physician friend ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” is a complex and eclectic exhibition, and one that includes multiple subordinate themes.