As the National Air and Space Museum built its collection and its identity, it also needed to find its footing as a place for science and research. In the third episode of our four-part limited series ...
Scientists have been thinking about how new species evolve since Darwin wrote On The Origin of Species in 1859. The results presented here call into question some of the most common explanations of ...
In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, the Smithsonian received a donation of $2.3 million from the Caterpillar ...
The long-term mammal monitoring project on Barro Colorado Island is one of the most unique camera trap systems in the tropics and the first of its kind Rosannette Quesada Hidalgo Glitter was a female ...
The Office of Legal Counsel has called the Smithsonian a “very unusual entity” and a “historical and legal anomaly.” A ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. For the 100th anniversary of Smithsonian Institution involvement in Panama, historian Pamela M. Henson visited the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
This chapter describes each scientific research unit covered by this study. The descriptions include background information on the centers, information on their budgets, an analysis of how the terms ...