Bao Li and Qing Bao, both 3 years old, are the latest black-and-white bears to call the nation's capital home Meilan Solly Smithsonian Voices Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Get the ...

Emily Frost runs the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's Ocean Portal. She is based in Washington, D.C. Scientists who explore the depths using submersibles continue to discover amazing animals ...

Amid what has been called an increasingly partisan culture war, a House committee voted to defund the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino. The clash of legislators in Congress, who ...

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Bao Li and Qing Bao made their public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. on Jan. 24 Roshan Patel/Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute The Giant ...

One of the most compelling examples of animal grief she discusses is the case of Tahlequah, an orca whose “grief swim” in 2018, and now again in 2025, has captured global attention and ...

Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, was convicted last week for the 2014 attack that left four dead, including two Israeli tourists. He smirked and told the Brussels criminal court on Monday that “life goes on,” as ...

January 28, 2025 • An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from ...

Credit: Roshan Patel / Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Watching the US news has felt rather depressing as of late – but I think I found the perfect pick-me-up ...

A 48-year-old Connecticut drug kingpin who killed a mother and her 8-year-old son so she wouldn't testify against his brother has received a commutation as part of former President Joe Biden's ...