For the first time, using cryopreservation to freeze sea urchin embryos may help restore coral reefs | Continue reading
The robot answered questions about technology, art and consciousness | Continue reading
The nonprofit behind the tool wants people to learn the history of the spaces they inhabit | Continue reading
Researchers blame too much summer sea ice for causing a downward spiral in one colony | Continue reading
Thawing agricultural nutrients threaten streams, lakes and rivers across the country, new research suggests | Continue reading
Universal is game to send Cruise into space for a proposed action film, but plans aren't official yet | Continue reading
An HVAC overhaul led to a total building replacement. Today's must-see National Air and Space Museum adds new stories and new artifacts | Continue reading
A new film dramatizes the life of Mamie Till-Mobley, who forced America to confront the brutality of her son's 1955 murder | Continue reading
It’s the second title in three years for the 1,400-pound behemoth dubbed “Bear Force One” | Continue reading
The agency's DART mission exceeded expectations, marking the first time humans have changed the trajectory of a celestial body | Continue reading
A new exhibition uses artificial intelligence to create images in the style of history’s greatest artists | Continue reading
The writer, who died last winter, is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hammer Museum | Continue reading
The algorithm scans electronic records and may reduce sepsis deaths, but widespread adoption could be a challenge | Continue reading
The isolated island is home to hundreds of the mysterious monuments | Continue reading
An alarming report indicates that dozens of species are likely to become federally endangered without preventive action | Continue reading
"Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point." | Continue reading
The National Gallery of Art now believes that "Girl With a Flute" was painted by one of his associates | Continue reading
The twins are an important addition to their vulnerable species and its dwindling gene pool | Continue reading
The transfer of ownership of 29 artworks is the first to be carried out under a new policy and practice | Continue reading
The predation could explain why the sharks have been locally declining in recent years | Continue reading
Archaeologists found the 44 Byzantine-era coins during excavations in the Golan Heights | Continue reading
A modern hunter-gatherer group known as the Hadza has taught researchers surprising things about the highly variable menu consumed by humans past | Continue reading
Researchers found her skull in 1881, mistakingly believing it belonged to a man | Continue reading
An exhibition at the Met features 100-plus paintings, sculptures, decorative works and objects that testify to the splendor of 16th-century English court | Continue reading
Belarus political prisoner Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties jointly won this year’s award | Continue reading
The Las Vegas hotel and casino temporarily closed its dolphin exhibit after 11-year-old K2 passed last month | Continue reading
Selected from 6,000 applicants, the workers will spend five months counting penguins and sending mail from the seventh continent | Continue reading
A new exhibition spotlights the gallery that championed Black avant-garde art in the 1970s and ’80s | Continue reading
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless received the award for developing new tools that will improve medicine | Continue reading
Experts aren't sure if the fungi affect the disease's progression | Continue reading
Their enzymes can break down plastic in a matter of hours | Continue reading
The inexpensive Maka Niu collects video and data at depths more than five times greater than trained scuba divers can go | Continue reading
Sam Cox—also known as Mr. Doodle—has been dreaming about the project since he was 18 | Continue reading
The French author is the 17th woman to win the prize | Continue reading
She is the mission commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission that will spend five months on the International Space Station | Continue reading
The images show the band playing a local gig in Liverpool in 1961 | Continue reading
The winning shots feature everything from glowing mushrooms to sauntering lions | Continue reading
What they revealed could enable ultra-secure computing and new telescope technology | Continue reading
With the prediction of phosphorus in its oceans, Enceladus has become an even more promising candidate for hosting life | Continue reading
The nearly mile-long structure allowed inhabitants to paddle to rich fishing grounds and access trade routes | Continue reading
A new biography explores the life of Vivekananda, a Hindu ascetic who promoted a more inclusive vision of religion | Continue reading
New research finds that many soldiers who fought in the fifth-century B.C.E. battles at Himera were born outside of the empire | Continue reading
The ultra-white color reflects up to 97.9 percent of sunlight and may reduce our reliance on air conditioning | Continue reading
NASA and SpaceX will jointly study whether the private company could lift the space telescope to a higher orbit | Continue reading
High definition scans of a fossil reveal the form of an early pterosaur relative | Continue reading
Follow the October reopening of America’s most-visited museum with exclusive coverage from Smithsonian magazine | Continue reading
Will the evidence back up world chess champion Magnus Carlsen's allegations against Hans Niemann, a young grandmaster? | Continue reading
Megan Piphus Peace, 29, plays a 6-year-old Black girl named Gabrielle | Continue reading