The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located on the Fort Detrick-Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, easily accessible for Maryland residents and visitors to the DC metro area. Admission is ...

That first dig was significant — the skeleton bones included rear limbs, making it the first evidence of a land-based snake ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno swept eastward across t ...

A reexamination of fossils found in Mongolia has revealed a previously unknown “missing link” species that led to dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex.

The visual splendor of this Dutch Golden Age painter's work, featuring gorgeous arrays of fruits and flowers animated by buzzing insects, delights in tableau after tableau.

Published: May 28, 2025 8:19am EDT The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism.

News Environment Scientific societies say they’ll do national climate assessment after Trump dismissed report authors ...

Wright’s specimen had avoided recognition for decades thanks to a long history of misidentification. When the Smithsonian Institution first catalogued the lizard on February 1, 1861, curators ...

Summer 2025 Project The illustration intern will work with scientists in the Herpetology department to illustrate diagnostic morphological features of amphibians across developmental (egg, tadpole, ...

A look at VMFA’s new print exhibit “Experimental Lines: Impressionist and Postimpressionist Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon” ...