Mid-America Science Museum is set to hold its 24th annual fundraising event, Taste of the Holidays, on Nov. 20, which is seen ...

In the basement of Connecticut's Beneski Museum of Natural History sit the fossilized footprints of a small, chicken-sized ...

Without federal funding, the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art will be forced to close. Here are the museums, galleries and attractions you can visit instead.

During the year the Detroit Children's Museum was founded, the United States entered World War I, lynchings and mass racial violence were prevalent in America, including the East Saint Louis Race ...

The sidewalk imprint, dubbed “Splatatouille,” was thought to have been left by an unfortunate brown rat that met its end ...

Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Butler has been awarded the 2025 Henry Shaw Medal from the Missouri Botanical Garden in St.

The Smithsonian’s portraits of women scientists give us a glimpse into the lives that helped shape modern discovery. Each ...

But the Windy City’s “rat hole” may not be what it seems. New research into the identity of the creature that caused a sidewalk imprint when it fell into freshly poured cement suggests the culprit is ...

On Oct. 17, 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries declared an oil embargo on countries supporting ...

2010: After 41 seasons and more than 3,000 games — which she called “a grand party” — Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust played her last home game at U.S. Cellular Field (now Rate Field).

The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society has awarded a record eight scholarships in 2025. Each award is worth $4,000, up ...

The Smithsonian was founded after a benefactor’s unexpected gift. Its mission has been ambitious—and sometimes politically ...