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The sit-ins spread to more than a hundred cities, and within six months, the Greensboro lunch counter—now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History —was desegregated.

A landmark study led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has pinpointed the Universe’s “missing” matter using Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)— brief, bright radio signals from ...

Scientists Are Using Drones to Unleash Thousands of Mosquitoes in Hawaii in a Bid to Save Native Birds. Here’s How It Works The lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the ...

The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. Members yielded to President Donald Trump’s demand for an audit of politicized ...