Lonnie Bunch to retire from Smithsonian
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution following a tumultuous…
Grain-sized fossils have solved a 113-million-year-old mystery, linking volcanic carbon dioxide to one of the ocean’s largest plankton extinctions
Tiny fossils have helped scientists crack a Cretaceous cold case. Using chemical signals preserved in microscopic shells, Northwestern…
Scientists finally identified this weird golden orb found 3 km underwater
A mysterious “golden orb” discovered almost three years ago in the Gulf of Alaska has finally been identified.…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was
After spending two and half years pondering a “golden orb” found at the bottom of the ocean, scientists…
Ruth Asawa May Have Broken Record at MoMA—and More Art News
The Headlines SMITHSONIAN SHUTDOWN. The Smithsonian Institution, a government-funded museum network in Washington, D.C., was forced to close this…
What to know amid Trump review
Trump administration reviews Smithsonian for partisan content The Trump administration ordered the Smithsonian to align exhibits with American…
Stephen Colbert Jokes That Among Other Trump Era Changes, the Smithsonian Says ‘the Vietnam War Was Started by Jimmy Kimmel’
On Monday’s “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert had an amusing response to news recently about some Orwellian changes…
Tate’s Director Hits Back at Critics—and More Art News
The Headlines ATTENDING TO CRITICISM. The director of the Tate museum network,Maria Balshaw, hit back at the critics who blamed Tate’s programming on…