Zoologists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute found the unnamed baby cradled inside 20-year-old mother Calaya’s arms shortly after 6 a.m., meaning it was born ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Smithsonian Institution said its iconic “Castle” would close at the start of February in order to undergo its first major renovation in more than 50 years. The ...

Unfortunately, Dickson passed away at age 24, and because he had no heirs, the U.S president, James Polk, signed an act approving the Smithsonian Institution into law in 1846.

A number of museums in Washington, DC are closing their doors again amid a spike in coronavirus cases. The Smithsonian Institution announced on Thursday it will temporarily close all its museums ...

A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some ...

In 2002, Dr. Comizzoli joined the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC as a staff scientist to develop new projects of gamete and gonadal tissue cryo-banking ...

Sun-dial Lupine (Lupinus perennis Linnaeus) collected near Washington, DC, plate 6 North American Wild Flowers by Mary Vaux Walcott, v.1, 1925 (Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution) ...

WASHINGTON, DC, JANUARY 31: Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough speaks during a press conference at the Smithsonian Institution on January 30, 2011, in Washington, D.C. (MATT MCCLAIN/The Washington ...

The Smithsonian Institution has acquired part of Capital Gallery, a two-building office campus in Washington, D.C., from Boston Properties, in a deal first reported by the Washington Business Journal.

The Smithsonian Castle is a beautiful neo-Gothic building towering over the National Mall in Washington DC. “The Castle” is actually the Smithsonian Visitor Center, and you should check it out ...