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The Secrets of How Life Began May Be Hidden Inside the World’s Oldest Rocks
Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...
Humanities groups sue Trump administration to reverse local funding cuts
The plaintiffs ask the court to "stop this imminent threat to our nation’s historic and critical support of the humanities by ...
A three-eyed ‘sea moth’ was an ocean predator 506 million years ago
Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art repatriates ancient silk manuscript to China
The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US ...
Oregon humanities group and others sue Trump administration to reverse funding cuts
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Portland by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Oregon Council for the Humanities, names DOGE and the NEH among the defendants.
9/11 Memorial Flag makes its 129th stop at Camp Lejeune, honoring lives lost in 2001
In honor of the lives lost on September 11, the 9/11 Memorial Flag has made its 129th stop at Camp Lejeune, currently on ...
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Ava DuVernay defends the Smithsonian
NPR's Juana Summers talks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about her lifetime achievement award speech at the Smithsonian American History Museum.