Tag: Smithsonian
Precise measurement standards have revolutionized museum science, helping nail down where...
Edward Vicenzi, Smithsonian Institution; Christine France, Smithsonian Institution, and Thomas Lam, Smithsonian Institution
On a cool February morning in...
With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens...
Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University
I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my...
Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side...
Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Institution; Kevin Hatala, Chatham University, and Purity Kiura, National Museums of Kenya
Human footprints stir...
Joel Roberts Poinsett: Namesake of the poinsettia, enslaver, secret agent and...
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
If people know the name Joel Roberts Poinsett today, it is likely because of...
Paying people to replant tropical forests − and letting them harvest...
Jefferson S. Hall, Smithsonian Institution; Katherine Sinacore, Smithsonian Institution, and Michiel van Breugel, National University of Singapore
Tropical forest...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
