National Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has hundreds of scientists, researchers, curators and collection managers who connect people everywhere to life’s unfolding story. Here is a sampling of the unique voices that make up the chorus of ideas at the museum.

An artistic representation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. (NIAID)

Six Videos that Put the Pandemic in Context

September 23rd, 2020, 6:00AM

/ BY Ashley Peery & Erin Malsbury

The Smithsonian’s National Mosquito Collection has about 1.9 million specimens from around the world that researchers use to study diseases like malaria. (Paul Fetters for the Smithsonian)

Get to Know the Scientist in Charge of Smithsonian’s 1.9 Million Mosquitoes

August 20th, 2020, 6:00AM

/ BY Erin Malsbury

An illustration of the new coronavirus. Coronaviruses are named for the spikes on their outer surface, which look like points on a crown. (CDC)

‘One Health’ Could Prevent the Next Coronavirus Outbreak

February 14th, 2020, 11:22AM

/ BY Margaret Osborne

A drawer of pinned adult mosquitoes from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s National Mosquito Collection. The specimens shown here were digitized recently. Meaning, their bionomic information is databased and individual specimens are cataloged. (David Pecor, WBRU)

Can Scientists Stop One of the World's Deadliest Mosquitoes?

May 23rd, 2018, 12:58PM

/ BY David Pecor

Meet the People Leading the Fight Against Pandemics

May 18th, 2018, 9:10AM

/ BY Angela Roberts Reeder

New Smithsonian Exhibit Spotlights "One Health" to Reduce Pandemic Risks

April 18th, 2018, 7:47AM

/ BY Sabrina Sholts

Will the Blue Marble Stay Blue? This famous Earth photo, known as The Blue Marble, was taken on December 7, 1972 by astronauts on the Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned lunar mission that provided humans with such an opportunity. Beautiful and fragile, the Blue Marble became a symbol of the environmental movement and part of the official Earth Day flag (Photo credit: NASA).

This Earth Day, the Planet’s Health is Your Health

April 19th, 2017, 1:41PM

/ BY Daniel Lucey & Sabrina Sholts

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