These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest capture vibrant parades and festivals around the world | Continue reading
Endo's research paved the way for the development of drugs to treat high cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attacks or strokes | Continue reading
The species is among three newly identified monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, discovered from fossils in Australia that are shedding light on the odd animals' evolution | Continue reading
The international effort, led by the Prague Zoo, released seven Przewalski’s horses to their native steppe habitat in central Asia | Continue reading
Sotheby's is auctioning early printings of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as a 1790 Rhode Island broadside | Continue reading
Maritime archaeologists hoisted the heavy artifacts, made of a special type of limestone, from 23 feet below the surface of the English Channel | Continue reading
Researchers have genetically tested the bones and made determinations of gender and family relations | Continue reading
A collection of 44 new studies, largely based on a short-duration tourist trip in 2021, provides insight into the health effects of traveling to space | Continue reading
Harkening back to mining days, the sport has human-donkey teams navigating challenging mountain courses | Continue reading
A new film dramatizes how the Tudor queen narrowly avoided execution on charges of heresy | Continue reading
The James Beard Award-winning Dakar NOLA is at the forefront of a generation of fine-dining establishments determined to educate foodies about the true origins of “Southern” cuisine | Continue reading
The Le Guin family has donated the science fiction novelist's former house to be used for a new writers residency | Continue reading
The species was only described in 2017 after "hiding in plain sight" for nearly three centuries | Continue reading
The mystifying Minoan structure, unearthed on a hilltop in Crete, is one of 35 newly announced archaeological finds in the area | Continue reading
In a new study, a computer model was able to identify the recipient of an elephant's call more than a quarter of the time, which scientists say is significantly greater than chance | Continue reading
The collection includes pieces from surrounding regions, as well as Italy and the Spanish Netherlands | Continue reading
The sport's greatest figures played ball in the Deep South amid the racism and bigotry that would later make Birmingham the center of the civil rights movement | Continue reading
On early winter mornings, a thin layer of ice forms in craters atop the Red Planet's towering peaks, near its equator, according to a new study | Continue reading
The National Portrait Gallery traces early images of American leaders, from John Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln | Continue reading
Found on the grounds of Kenilworth Castle, the eight stones were used during a clash between rebels and royal forces in 1266 | Continue reading
From monarchs to sea slugs, various creatures consume chemicals that keep predators at bay | Continue reading
A new exhibition challenges longstanding assumptions about the American Impressionist's artistic legacy | Continue reading
During Australia’s devastating bushfires in 2019 and 2020, misinformation spread about wombats welcoming animals into their underground homes—but a new study finds a kernel of truth in the viral story | Continue reading
Dozens of items, including burnt bones and ceramics, provide new insights into ritual activity in the city of Ostia | Continue reading
Veteran storm chaser Val Castor spotted the behemoth ice chunk in a ditch near Vigo Park in the Texas panhandle | Continue reading
The genealogy company has digitized and published 38,000 newspaper articles from between 1788 and 1867—before Black Americans were counted as citizens in the U.S. census | Continue reading
From a bluegrass capital in Virginia to a laid-back surf town in Hawaii, these spots are beckoning to tourists this year | Continue reading
First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel's dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched | Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson imagined the waterway as the heart of his “empire of liberty" as he dispatched surveyors to measure a land already occupied by Native Americans | Continue reading
The Apollo 8 lunar module pilot also served in the U.S. Air Force and worked extensively on nuclear energy projects | Continue reading
The "excellently preserved" chess knight, six-sided die and several other pieces are all about 1,000 years old | Continue reading
A stagnant high-pressure system over the region is trapping heat, exacerbating high temperatures and setting records | Continue reading
The 17th-century artworks were recovered from Germany and placed at the Paris museum in the 1950s | Continue reading
A new study suggests people in the Eurasian steppe bred horses around 2200 B.C.E., challenging earlier ideas about the beginnings of horse husbandry | Continue reading
A genetic analysis of opulent burial mounds in Germany sheds new light on how power passed through family lines | Continue reading
Scientists plan to use what they learn to help restore communities harmed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Continue reading
New research has confirmed that the celestial object may be the biggest of its kind ever found | Continue reading
The strain is not the same one that has infected U.S. cows and three dairy farm workers, and officials say the risk to the general public remains low | Continue reading
The 86-square-foot space is adorned with artworks depicting female figures and agricultural imagery | Continue reading
Likely transported by Hurricane Idalia last August, more than 100 of the pink birds were counted in a February census in the Sunshine State, where they are considered a native species | Continue reading
A new exhibition begins long before the creation of the Negro Leagues and ends with the triumphs and challenges of today's players | Continue reading
Researchers say two teeth and a kneecap belong to a previously unknown species that lived in what is now Germany | Continue reading
New research offers evidence that humans did not inhabit the island of Timor until around 44,000 years ago, suggesting it was not part of the original migration route from Southeast Asia to Australia | Continue reading
Created in 1979, the rare missile-firing figurine has become a "mythic icon" among collectors | Continue reading
See 15 awesome automobiles from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest | Continue reading
Three previous uncrewed test flights ended with Starship being destroyed, but both the booster and the spacecraft splashed down on the fourth try | Continue reading
The well-preserved artifact may belong to a special class of high-quality, engraved weapons | Continue reading
Get outside, ditch the light pollution and marvel at the cosmos on these protected public lands | Continue reading