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Yesmarie De La Flor answers your questions about what it’s like being a marine scientist in a National Museum of Natural History program streaming on Dec. 10. (Michelle Donahue, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Seven Free Natural History Programs Streaming in December

A bison on the Northern Great Plains.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

I Spent the Summer Studying a Herd of Bison, And Here’s What I Learned

The National Museum of Natural History’s entomology collection has many Asian giant hornets. Recently, the collection grew with new specimens from an eradicated nest in Washington State. (Matthew Buffington, USDA-ARS)

National Museum of Natural History

Family Members Follow Original Asian Giant Hornet to Smithsonian

The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems working group combines expertise from paleontologists and ecologists to improve our understanding of ancient and modern ecosystems. (Mary Parrish, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Interdisciplinary Study Shows How Species Interactions Affect Evolution

Wayne Thiebaud,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Happy Birthday Wayne Thiebaud!

The Hope Diamond came to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1958. Since then, museum scientists have uncovered a lot about the diamond’s intriguing past. (Dane A. Penland, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Get to Know the Hope Diamond’s Keeper

Chef Danielle Renov offers up festive Hanukkah ideas from her new cookbook during a Smithsonian Associates Streaming program on December 6. (Moshe Wulliger)

Smithsonian Associates

Get Ready for the Holiday Season With These Virtual Smithsonian Programs

Lorna Truck and Tim Benson. Photograph documenting burning of Robert Pincus-Witten's book Postminimalism (1977) at the request of artist Buster Cleveland as part of the 1979 Des Moines Festival of the Avant-Garde, circa 1979. Fred Truck papers, 1965-2019. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

New Collections: Fred Truck Papers

The Smithsonian’s Division of Birds provided about 40% of the tissue samples for the new bird genomes in a landmark study. (James Di Loreto, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Landmark Study Shares Smithsonian Bird DNA Collected Over Three Decades

56 million-year-old fossil pollen grains collected from Wyoming and photographed on the NMNH’s scanning electron microscope.

Office of Academic Appointments and Internships

Tiny Fossils, Big Insight; How We Can Use Fossil Pollen to Understand Earth’s Climate History

Informal classroom portrait of teacher Herbert Stephen Desind (1945-1992), wearing a reproduction Apollo-era spacesuit, holding an American flag; circa 1980s. Desind was a space flight aficionado, and his collection of photographs of aircraft and spacecraft was donated to the National Air and Space Museum in 1997. This image is part of the Herbert Stephen Desind Collection.

National Air and Space Museum

Herbert Desind: A Passion for Spaceflight

Arthur C. Clarke poses for a photo while he sits at his desk, circa 1969.

National Air and Space Museum

Famous Correspondents of Arthur C. Clarke

Rebecca Hill-Genia in the award-winning documentary

National Museum of the American Indian

Films for Fans of All Kinds from the Museum’s Native Cinema Showcase 2020, This Year Screening Online

The Peruvian tern's desert camouflage makes it almost impossible to track, but that’s exactly what our research team set out to do. It would take us four months to survey more than 1,851 acres for the bird, battling sandstorms, stifling heat and impossible landscapes inside Paracas National Reserve — terrain that the tern has mastered.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Searching for the Invisible, Invincible Peruvian Tern

Martin Johnson Heade, Black-eared Fairy, ca. 1863-1864, oil on canvas, 12 1/4 x 10 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.89. Photography by Dwight Primiano.

Archives of American Art

Conversations Across Collections: Martin Johnson Heade’s Notebook on Hummingbirds

Keara Teeter treating William H. Johnson’s Historical Scene with Mary McLeod Bethune, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation. Photo by Lou Molnar

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Unpacking and Preserving William H. Johnson's 'Fighters for Freedom' Series

This mummified steppe bison was donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in the 1970s. Right now, museum audiences can see it online during a virtual tour. (Michelle Pinsdorf, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Bison Mummies Help Scientists Ruminate on Ancient Climate

Fred Tutman is the Patuxent Riverkeeper, the longest-serving Waterkeeper in the Chesapeake Bay region, and the only African-American Waterkeeper in the nation

Smithsonian Science

Discerning Blades of Grass in Grassroots Movements: A Riverkeeper's Perspective on Environmental Equity and Diversity

Unidentified, Luis C. González,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Traditions and Change: The Transformation of Día de los Muertos in the United States

Doña Ofelia Esparza decorates the ofrenda

National Museum of the American Indian

Celebrate the Day of the Dead from Home with Music, Butterfly Science, Cultural Presentations, and Family Activities

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