Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley announces the reintroduction of the barn owl to one of the towers of the Smithsonian Castle. Ripley explains that garbage left by visitors on the Mall has ...

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A recent discovery beneath the Smithsonian Castle has turned heads and offered a rare look into the early infrastructure of Washington, D.C. As workers renovated the Castle, they unexpectedly found an ...

G. Wayne Clough, Smithsonian Institution’s 12th Secretary Photo courtesy of the Georgia Institute of Technology From its early days in the 1850s, when a single building housed science laboratories and ...