New research suggests some catastrophic event—such as a natural disaster or a virus—killed the world's last known population of mammoths on Wrangel Island | Continue reading
Archaeologists have uncovered around 70 iron rivets that may have once held together a boat belonging to a king | Continue reading
Officials are unsure why the satellite fractured unexpectedly, splintering into nearly 200 pieces | Continue reading
In preliminary research, scientists identified eight protein anomalies in the blood of patients with Parkinson's, which they say can help diagnose the disease up to seven years before symptoms appear | Continue reading
The administrators spent long periods writing in odd postures, which damaged their joints, researchers discovered | Continue reading
Anna Lee Dozier started to wonder about the object's origins when she realized it resembled artifacts in a Mexican museum | Continue reading
Researchers say climate change is to blame for the Greek island of Delos' slow demise | Continue reading
Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries | Continue reading
In Soweto, an unlikely champion offers lessons in riding and in life | Continue reading
The ornate series of woodcuts that transformed an art form | Continue reading
These 15 images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest offer a taste of the season | Continue reading
The child's survival until at least 6 years old could be evidence of collaborative caregiving in Neanderthal societies, according to a new paper | Continue reading
The man damaged a wall in the House of Ceii, a dwelling celebrated for its beautiful frescoes | Continue reading
Providing frogs with sun-warmed bricks inside mini-greenhouses can help them recover from chytrid and make them more resilient against the disease in the future, a new study finds | Continue reading
Nathan Baskind received a Jewish burial exactly 80 years after his death in World War II | Continue reading
An exhibition at the National Museum of American History examines how humans influence and judge investigation techniques | Continue reading
The team designed a new way for their lab-grown skin to adhere to the robot's face, in a creation that could help produce soft robots or train plastic surgeons | Continue reading
Within 42 hours of each other, the pair of large asteroids, which both have no chance of impacting our planet, will approach Earth as they orbit the sun | Continue reading
Scientists manufactured a womb that could potentially help bolster populations of endangered shark species | Continue reading
The North’s fruitful partnership with Liberian farmers fueled a steady supply of an essential beverage | Continue reading
The Australian island state is trying to drum up tourism during the Southern Hemisphere's winter | Continue reading
As rice coral spreads it reduces biodiversity | Continue reading
In the wake of Hurricane Ike, engineers have been crafting a $34 billion plan to protect the city. Will it work when the next disaster arrives? | Continue reading
In the summer of 1924, the Leopold and Loeb murder case triggered a media frenzy and a debate over whether anyone can truly know what’s inside the mind of a cold-blooded killer | Continue reading
The China National Space Administration retrieved more than four pounds of lunar soil samples, which scientists hope will shed light on the early history of Earth and the moon | Continue reading
The toddlers' remains were buried around the beginning of the Spanish conquest of South America | Continue reading
The small bronze statue, which was unearthed at Herculaneum, had been missing for two centuries | Continue reading
New research opens the door for doctors to one day use bees as a living diagnostic tool | Continue reading
As measured by satellites, wildfires have markedly increased in boreal and temperate conifer forests, and rising nighttime temperatures allow flames to keep burning intensely after dark | Continue reading
In the far reaches of New England, an unusual convergence of farmworkers renews an ancient and increasingly threatened agricultural practice | Continue reading
From calling each other by name to using tools, these social creatures are a lot like us | Continue reading
Created more than 50 years ago, the game has captured the imaginations of generations of Americans, and not just the nerdy ones | Continue reading
Edythe Eyde published nine issues of "Vice Versa" between June 1947 and February 1948. She later adopted a pen name that doubled as an anagram for "lesbian" | Continue reading
Buried at a castle in Spain, the woman was found alongside the remains of 22 men who likely died on the battlefield | Continue reading
The planet's massive storm, known as the Great Red Spot, seems to be different from a spot first observed at roughly the same location in the 17th century, a new study finds | Continue reading
Officials hope to raise millions to bid on the shoes, which were missing for over a decade, at auction in December | Continue reading
Researchers combined several lines of evidence to solve the mystery of why a group of painted ladies, which do not live in South America, were found fluttering on a beach in French Guiana | Continue reading
The Picasso Museum in Paris has released a digital portal featuring the Spanish painter and sculptor's art | Continue reading
"St. Gregory of Nazianzus," once part of the Baroque palace's collection, was stolen and sold at the end of the war | Continue reading
A new paper contradicts the idea that people used up the island's resources and experienced a significant population decline, instead proposing that a small society lived there sustainably | Continue reading
The annual festival returns to the National Mall to celebrate Indigenous traditions that span continents and generations | Continue reading
As numbers of these key pollinators decline, conservationists are eyeing new federal protections for one vulnerable species | Continue reading
Fanny Angelina Hesse introduced agar to the life sciences in 1881. A trove of unpublished family papers sheds new light on her many accomplishments | Continue reading
At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world | Continue reading
New research suggests sick chimps seek out and eat plants with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties—a finding that could advance drug discovery for humans | Continue reading
A century ago, the party took a record 103 ballots and 16 days of intense, violent debate to choose a presidential nominee | Continue reading
Crowds decked out as fantastical sea creatures flocked to Brooklyn's amusement district for the summer kickoff event | Continue reading
NASA and Boeing have delayed the crewed mission's return to Earth again, as engineers assess helium leaks and a thruster issue on the spacecraft's service module | Continue reading