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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 14, 2022 -- Genocea Biosciences, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation neoantigen immunotherapies, today announced that Chip Clark, President... | March 14, 2022

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genocea Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNCA), a biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation...

Once gifted by Napoleon, the heirloom is now bejeweled in December’s birthstone

“All the pretty, cushy places on earth have already been studied,” said photographer Chip Clark with a laugh in conversation with Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where he worked from 1973 until his death in the summer of 2010. He was on the ground with scientists when they collected samples and data, roughing it in tents, sharing space with bugs and critters of all kinds.

300,000 years ago, nine human species walked the Earth. Now there’s just one. Was this mass extinction all down to us?

The practice of eating insects, known as entomophagy, is widespread around the world.

The National Museum of Natural History’s herbarium is helping botanists research climate-driven changes in plants, their biology and their abundance

The first Americans: How and when were the Americas populated? by Mary Caperton Morton Thursday, December 15, 2016 Archaeologists used to have a tidy story to explain the earliest peopling of the Americas: During the last ice age, when sea levels were much lower, a band of intrepid travelers walked from East Asia, over the Bering land bridge, and into Alaska. From there, they followed an ice-free corridor east of the Canadian Rockies south onto the megafauna-rich plains, eventually spr...

April 29th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Emily Leclerc Fossil plants reveal information about the temperature and precipitation of past climates. Scientists use what they learn from fossil plants to inform their research on modern climate change (USNM PAL 606436, Smithsonian) In a world obsessed with human ingenuity, plants are perhaps the most underappreciated innovators. Their ability to adapt sprouts from necessity. Plants cannot root elsewhere when faced with an inhospitable...

April 22nd, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Abigail Eisenstadt Many organisms like coral — and even people — create their own minerals to perform basic life functions. Geologists can study these biominerals to learn more about Earth. (Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian) Evolving Climate: The Smithsonian is so much more than its world-renowned exhibits and artifacts. It is an organization dedicated to understanding how the past informs the present and future. Once a week, we will sh...