Researchers examined 15,000-year-old stone art and suggest the makers were inspired to show movement by dynamic lighting of the fireside environment | Continue reading
Karen Nyberg's two missions to the International Space Station over her 30-year career with NASA fueled her creativity as an artist | Continue reading
Curators joined efforts to ensure artists could showcase their work, even during wartime | Continue reading
The estimate of annual loss is nearly double the rate of erosion the USDA considers sustainable | Continue reading
The highly contagious H5N1 strain is also infecting commercial chickens and turkeys | Continue reading
The Scablands were formed by tremendous and rapid change, and may have something to teach us about geological processes on Mars | Continue reading
A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people | Continue reading
The federal website excludes some would-be adventurers, a University of Montana study suggests | Continue reading
The guitarist lived in the three-bedroom Liverpool home as a child and teenager | Continue reading
A glyph representing "7 Deer" marks the earliest known use of the historical system—for now | Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia developed NOS.E, a device that can detect differences among whiskies by "smelling" them | Continue reading
Scientists have a new tool in the fight against a spreading virus that threatens the small mammals | Continue reading
The new findings could help Mukwema Ohlone prove they never went "extinct" | Continue reading
As Elizabeth II celebrates 70 years on the throne, Sotheby’s takes a look back at royal history | Continue reading
Hundreds of homemade maps reveal how people from around the globe found their way through crisis | Continue reading
Nostalgia for childhood has led to new, fanciful flavors of maple syrup, snacks and even legal marijuana | Continue reading
Pepx Romero kissed and licked centuries-old archaeological wonders to raise awareness of the ongoing, contested sale of pre-Hispanic treasures | Continue reading
The icy object is larger than the state of Rhode Island and weighs an estimated 500 trillion tons | Continue reading
The three-month-old gray seal had wandered through streets and parking lots until it was captured by a local nonprofit, rehabilitated and released | Continue reading
New research brings the number of potential burial sites of early medieval Celtic rulers from 2 to more than 20 | Continue reading
The recognitions honor the resistance and bravery of freedom seekers and their allies who risked their lives to resist slavery | Continue reading
The creatures’ annual protracted snoozes have much to tell us about the biology of mammals, ourselves included | Continue reading
The new series dramatizes the White House years of Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama | Continue reading
The new study focused on under-researched RNA viruses, which often infect animals and humans | Continue reading
On her 90th birthday, the self-taught singer-songwriter is donating personal items to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History | Continue reading
At 1,428 feet tall and just 60 feet wide, Steinway Tower is so slender that its top floors sway in the wind | Continue reading
The first examination of Hitler's teeth permitted in 70 years shows the complicated dental work matches the Fuhrer's medical records | Continue reading
This guidance comes as experts warn that children are experiencing a mental health crisis, which the pandemic has worsened | Continue reading
The artifact, which honors General Daniel Morgan, went missing for years—then mysteriously turned up at an auction house specializing in coins and medals | Continue reading
A scholar traces the folk figure's history from the Neolithic era to today | Continue reading
The artifacts are on display alongside modern spears created by the descendants of the Indigenous Dharawal people | Continue reading
Under the pseudonym Mayn Clew Garnett, author Thornton Jenkin Hains published a maritime disaster story with eerie parallels to the real-life tragedy | Continue reading
Jared Whipple discovered the life's work of Francis Hines, a largely forgotten Abstract Expressionist artist | Continue reading
Over 1,000 scientists from 25 countries took part in the Science Rebellion’s demonstrations last week | Continue reading
The decision comes after a decades-long campaign by Aboriginal groups, but not all stakeholders are pleased with the current plan | Continue reading
The leg bone is one of many other specimens uncovered at the North Dakota site | Continue reading
New research suggests the vessel is the mysterious "Sparrow-Hawk" | Continue reading
An exhibition at the Phillips Collection reveals hidden compositions beneath three of the Cubist's canvases | Continue reading
Sophisticated climate models were paired with evidence from the archeological record to reveal where ancient humans may have lived and evolved | Continue reading
The longstanding tradition brings a dazzling display to the streets of Antigua each spring | Continue reading
Forty years of bringing critical attention to the nation's best-known makers in the arts is celebrated at this year’s Smithsonian Craft Show | Continue reading
The animals include about 400 protected species | Continue reading
A new exhibition at London's Foundling Museum explores how growing up without birth parents shapes comic book characters | Continue reading
A new kind of jumping spider discovered in South America marks the major milestone | Continue reading
It is the first known case of meningitis in the species | Continue reading
The receipt for one of Yves Klein's "Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility" was described by Sotheby's as an early NFT | Continue reading
Nearly a dozen companies are betting on computer-controlled, airborne wind energy to electrify the future | Continue reading
A computer scientist found the average fungal lexicon contains 50 words | Continue reading