Smithsonian Institution

All Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo will close because of rising COVID-19 cases, officials announced Thursday. The museums and zoo will close to the public starting Monday, Nov. 23. Officials cited rising cases in the region and across the United States. “The Institution’s top priority is to protect the health and safety of its visitors and staff. We will...

Congress passed a bill Monday that would create a Smithsonian museum on the National Mall for American Latino history, art and culture. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

The House has passed a bill to establish a Smithsonian museum for American Latinos that would showcase Latino history, art and culture.

NBC4 is proud to support Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Environmental groups are hoping a rare bug found only along Delaware’s southern coast will become the first firefly on the federal government’s endangered species list.

The visiting priests arrived discreetly, day and night. Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in this tiny Midwestern town as they were escorted into a dingy warehouse across from an elementary school playground. Neighbors had no idea some of the dressed-down clergymen dining at local restaurants might have been accused sexual predators. They had been brought to...

The university filed the preliminary designs to renovate 555 Pennsylvania Ave. with the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on July 3.

Derrick Ward reports on a tour group of distant relatives of James Smithson, the man whose fortune helped create the Smithsonian Institution

NBC4 catches up with University of Maryland professor Dr. YuHuang Wang.

An historic change is coming to the Smithsonian Institution. For the first time in 175 years, an African American has been named to head the museum system.

Lonnie Bunch was the first director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He shepherded the collection of more than 40,000 items and the creation of the museum on the National Mall.

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Donate Life sought more organ, eye and tissue donors. (Published Tuesday, June 12, 2018)

In fact, when it comes to food waste, consumers are frequently the ones doing the least in dealing with the problem, costing not just the environment but their own wallets in the process. Here are some companies looking to to solve this issue.

America’s first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died. Cobb died in Florida at age 88 on March 18 following a brief illness. News of her death came Thursday from journalist Miles O’Brien, serving as a family spokesman. In 1961, Cobb became the first woman to pass astronaut...

Jerry Merryman, one of the inventors of the handheld electronic calculator, has died in Dallas. He was 86.

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, researchers have identified the remains of two soldiers at a excavated battlefield hospital in Manassas, Virginia.

The remains of Union soldiers were found on a battlefield in Manassas, Virginia. News4’s Aimee Cho tells how they will be honored.

With a bill like a duck but teeth like a croc’s, a swanlike neck and killer claws, a new dinosaur species uncovered by scientists looks like something Dr. Seuss could have dreamed up. It also had flippers like a penguin, and while it walked like an ostrich it could also swim. That’s the first time swimming ability has been shown...

Testimony is scheduled to begin Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles in a lawsuit over who owns the rights to one of the most popular board games of all time. The widow of a toy inventor says her husband, Bill Markham, has been denied his legacy of creating The Game of Life, after another man, Reuben Klamer, took full...