Avi Wigderson earned the 2023 Turing Award for wide-ranging work in theoretical computer science | Continue reading
These 15 picture-perfect cherry blossom images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest are pretty in pink. | Continue reading
Fiery streaks will illuminate the night sky from April 15-29, with the spectacle's peak occurring from April 21-22 | Continue reading
The live stream from the Netherlands, which lets viewers notify a boat lock operator when fish need to be let through, has become a popular pastime for people around the world | Continue reading
The site in eastern England may have served as a sacred space for groups across thousands of years | Continue reading
The variants are present in fewer than 1 percent of people, but they were 2.7 times more likely to appear in lefties than in righties | Continue reading
A newly restored collection of letters describes a 27-year-old's office job, social life and financial concerns beginning in 1719 | Continue reading
Researchers have solved the mystery of the silver coin boom that took place around 660 C.E. | Continue reading
Typically seen just five to ten times per decade, the elusive species has now been found for the second time in six months | Continue reading
The rare early Christian text was written in a monastery in Egypt between 250 and 350 C.E. | Continue reading
The Nobel Prize winner predicted the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that scientists successfully discovered in 2012, explaining how particles get their mass and underlying a key theory of the universe | Continue reading
A new limited series starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin revisits the founding father's years as the American ambassador to France | Continue reading
The 2,000-year-old Hallaton Helmet is now on permanent display at the Harborough Museum in England | Continue reading
The next total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous U.S. won’t take place until August 23, 2044—but eclipse chasers will have other opportunities to experience totality before that | Continue reading
McCartney was inspired to write the song after hearing about the battle to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957 | Continue reading
An original copy of 1938's "Action Comics No. 1" sold for a record-breaking $6 million at auction | Continue reading
The technology could make clouds reflect more sunlight, cooling the Earth below. But even the scientists leading the study say letting go of fossil fuels is a much-preferred response to climate change | Continue reading
Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree | Continue reading
A $100 million renovation will help preserve the history of the millions of immigrants who passed through the island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | Continue reading
Fernando Sánchez Castillo employed historical resources and image-generation technologies to reimagine "Expulsion of the Moriscos" | Continue reading
Many of these companies increased their fossil fuel production after the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016 | Continue reading
Wildlife officials believe the animal was likely the first gray wolf spotted in the southern Lower Peninsula in 100 years | Continue reading
The Chesapeake 1000 was used to construct a ship for a top-secret CIA mission in the 1970s | Continue reading
The circular wisps are mostly condensed water vapor | Continue reading
The handwritten manuscript he produced is going to auction, where it could become the most expensive item associated with the mystery writer ever sold | Continue reading
The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden from 1958 to 1992 | Continue reading
Titles with LGBTQ themes dominated the American Library Association's newly released list | Continue reading
From Texas to Maine, millions of Americans looked up and were spellbound by the spectacular phenomenon | Continue reading
A recent study analyzes Scandinavian examples of filed teeth and elongated skulls dating to the Viking Age | Continue reading
Two specific broods will appear together for the first time since 1803 | Continue reading
The two babies are part of an endangered species whose unbearable cuteness has made them a target for wildlife traffickers | Continue reading
Three companies are competing to design NASA's lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) for the agency’s Artemis campaign | Continue reading
An estimated 600 of the hoofed intruders are wreaking havoc on the two-square-mile island of Alicudi | Continue reading
A study that looks back more than 100 years shows that where the animals have thrived, underwater forests have, too | Continue reading
The largest 3D map of the universe ever made hints that dark energy might not be a constant, though the findings must be backed up with more data | Continue reading
The acclaimed biopic of the Manhattan Project's leader has been met with mixed reviews by Japanese audiences | Continue reading
After just two nights of short sleep, a person’s “subjective age,” or how old they feel, can spike by more than four years | Continue reading
While they urge caution, researchers think an artist may have traced a stingray in the sand some 130,000 years ago | Continue reading
The spring Chinook salmon smolts should still be able to find their way to the Pacific Ocean and help boost the threatened population of the fish, officials say, though another 25,000 salmon died in the accident | Continue reading
Divers clearing the Patapsco River are grappling with poor visibility and dangerous conditions, so they rely heavily on real-time sonar observations | Continue reading
The story of the half-human, half-monkey god mirrors the journey of the protagonist in Patel's directorial debut | Continue reading
Not in the path of totality? See the moon blot out the sun, revealing its magnificent corona, from your computer or phone | Continue reading
Nature enthusiasts work with researchers to figure out how creatures respond to the celestial phenomenon | Continue reading
A new exhibition at the Met is the first to examine the tradition of covered 15th- and 16th-century portraits, which were designed to be interactive and often portable | Continue reading
A new exhibition at the National Museum of American History aims to inspire the next generation of innovators | Continue reading
See what makes this country so captivating, from picturesque rice paddies to striking cityscapes | Continue reading
The new mini-series dramatizes the Villiers family’s scandalous rise to power at the court of England's James I | Continue reading
Eastern garter snakes might recognize their own scents, suggesting the reptiles are more cognitively complex than thought, according to a new study | Continue reading