Smithsonian

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  Iconic Ruby Slippers From The Wizard Of Oz Up For Auction At $550,000 Nearly Two Decades After Theft

  The auction also includes other items from the film including the screen door from Dorothy Gale's Kansas home and the hat worn by Margaret Hamilton

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  Watch: The Brave Six Who Stood Beneath An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

  To assess the impact of nuclear weapons on humans, the US undertook an exceptionally audacious experiment.

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  Study Finds If Space Dust Could Protect Earth From Climate Change

  The study was led by researchers from the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian and the University of Utah.

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  Internet Is All Hearts Over 45-Year-Old Orangutan "Auntie" Bonnie

  In the video shared by Smithsonian's National Zoo on Instagram, the orangutan is seen having fun with other members of its family.

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  Study Finds Wild Bats Have Long-Term Memory Of Sounds

  A study has claimed that certain wild bats have long-term memory of sounds. It has been carried out by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama who studied frog-eating bats.

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  Jeff Bezos Gives Record $200 Million Donation To Smithsonian

  Jeff Bezos will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian, the largest gift in the history of the institute.

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  Watch: Red Panda Getting Treat From Puzzle Feeder Is Too Cute To Handle

  The video was shared by USA's The Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute on their official Twitter handle.

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  Smithsonian Institution Releases 2.8 Million 2D, 3D Images Into the Public Domain

  Smithsonian Institution says it encourages people to use, reuse, and transform the free images into just about anything they choose.

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  Legendary Jet That Flew Faster Than Rifle Bullet Heads For Storage

  They swept the dirt from its path as the old rocket plane was rolled out of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday night.

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  It Only Took 66 Million Years, But A T-Rex Is Finally Making Its US Debut

  The history of the skeleton known to Montanans as the "Wankel T rex," to the Smithsonian as the "Nation's T rex" and to scientists as "MOR555," has three parts. The first we know little about - researchers can't even tell whether that hatchling was a girl or a boy. The second part was 24 billion days of stony silence. But the third ... that's where...

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  "Look, Mom, Is This Real...": US Health Museum Is A Fascinating Nightmare

  With all the Smithsonians and the National Gallery of Art closed by the federal shutdown, now's a good time to visit D.C.'s lesser-known museums.

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  Mystery Dinosaur To Stay In Basement As New US Museum Opens Next Year

  When the new fossil hall at the National Museum of Natural History opens next June, it will show off hundreds of the Smithsonian's finest prehistoric specimens, including the newly acquired star of the Late Cretaceous show, "The Nation's T. rex."

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  Climate Change Could Render Many Of Earth's Ecosystems Unrecognisable

  After the end of the last ice age, as sea levels rose, glaciers receded and global average temperatures soared as much as 7 degrees Celsius, the Earth's ecosystems were utterly transformed.

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  Hope Diamond, Mined In India, Was Born At Hellish Depths Of Earth: Study

  Before the massive Hope Diamond came to rest in a Smithsonian exhibit, before the gem passed among wealthy owners and thieves and French royals, before it acquired its cursed reputation, before it was mined in India, the diamond was born at hellish depths beneath Earth's crust.

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  Fossil Hunting 101: Lessons From A Self-Taught Dinosaur Tracker

  Ray Stanford, a wiry 79-year-old with a slight Texas twang, passes me an oblong piece of reddish rock. He found it in a stream bed years ago, not far from an impression of a hatchling armored dinosaur now on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.