Five artists have been shortlisted for the project, which will be located near the site of the U.K.'s first dedicated AIDS ward | Continue reading
A new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum brings together the Black Modernist painter’s most famous series for the first time in more than 75 years | Continue reading
A metal plate affixed to the Europa Clipper is engraved with a poem, tributes to scientists and waveforms representing the word "water" in 103 languages, among other drawings | Continue reading
A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination | Continue reading
The suspects allegedly recreated the famous street artist's work using spray paint and cardboard to rake in over $10,000 | Continue reading
The famed novelist had instructed his family never to publish drafts of "Until August," written as he struggled with dementia during his final years | Continue reading
Genomes of Indian people today reveal links to a prehistoric migration and a group of Iranian farmers, as well as several new sequences from the Neanderthal genome | Continue reading
The photographs come from all corners of the world, capturing the beauty of everyday life | Continue reading
A review of government investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena since 1945 found that "most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification" | Continue reading
Communities may have thought the celestial events were messages from the gods, a reason to abandon a settlement or a cue to end a war | Continue reading
A German researcher found the lower section of the Egyptian pharaoh's likeness nearly 100 years ago | Continue reading
Discovered by a magnet fisher, the weapon dates to between 850 and 975, during the Vikings' violent conquest of Britain | Continue reading
The noisy, winged insects produce pee the same way that much larger animals do, according to a new study | Continue reading
The proto-bird lived some 120 million years ago and did not have teeth—a trait more similar to birds of today than to birds of its time—sharpening scientists' understanding of avian evolution | Continue reading
If predictions are accurate, the sale would be the highest ever for an American postage mark | Continue reading
Three new hires will spend five months living among gentoo penguins and sorting postcards at the world's southernmost post office | Continue reading
The inaugural exhibition at the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum seeks to shine light on lesser-known historical figures | Continue reading
The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a pivotal declaration of British support for a "national home for the Jewish people" | Continue reading
The human hand is an incredible tool—and a deadly threat | Continue reading
Princess Dashkova led research institutes, wrote plays and music, and embarked on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe | Continue reading
In India, five dead calves were found buried on their backs in irrigation ditches, with evidence that multiple herd members had participated in the burials | Continue reading
A researcher found a box containing 800 pages from the composer's first musical, "La, La, Lucille" | Continue reading
New research reveals evidence of nicotine residue on vases unearthed in Guatemala | Continue reading
Since the Gemini 12 mission in 1966, a handful of people have seen these stunning celestial events from orbit—or watched the moon’s shadow pass over Earth | Continue reading
The venue, which opens this week, memorializes the Dutch Jews who suffered at the hands of the Nazis | Continue reading
The team's lofty goal of "resurrection" is still far from reality, but scientists say the advancement in understanding cells could help with elephant conservation | Continue reading
A metal detectorist came across the copper artifact while searching for objects from World War I and World War II | Continue reading
The massive creature is 8.8 million years old, and its modern descendants in Australia can grow to be the weight of a human toddler | Continue reading
Airbnb is offering two guests the chance to sleep amongst 22,000 books in an area normally off-limits to visitors | Continue reading
The juvenile Chinook salmon likely died from pressure changes as they swam through an old tunnel in the Iron Gate Dam, slated to be removed this year as part of a massive demolition project | Continue reading
Using solar power, machine learning and her family’s patio umbrella, 18-year-old Selina Zhang created a synthetic tree that lures the destructive species | Continue reading
Lego created just 30 of the 14-karat gold Kanohi Hau masks for a giveaway in 2001 | Continue reading
Bug out with 15 shots of insects and arachnids of all shapes and sizes from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest | Continue reading
Bug out with 15 shots of insects and arachnids of all shapes and sizes from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest | Continue reading
For one of them, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public | Continue reading
Mohammed V defied the collaborationist Vichy regime, saving Morocco's 250,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps | Continue reading
Actor Colin Firth’s costume from the BBC's “Pride in Prejudice” doubled auction house estimates | Continue reading
The 1.4-million-year-old rocks may have belonged to Homo erectus, and they shed light on migrations of human ancestors, a new study suggests | Continue reading
The 1.4-million-year-old rocks may have belonged to Homo erectus, and they shed light on migrations of human ancestors, a new study suggests | Continue reading
Scientists say a lack of Arctic sea ice due to climate change could have created a passageway for the mammal to travel from the Pacific Ocean | Continue reading
A lack of microbial diversity could eventually spell the end of cheeses like Camembert | Continue reading
The "Messier marathon" prompts space hobbyists to spot 110 celestial objects in one night, and the best time to try it is in March | Continue reading
"Olympism" explores the history of the ancient Olympics and France’s influence on the modern games | Continue reading
Mildred and Patty Hill wrote the popular song's melody, but their contributions to American culture have long been overlooked | Continue reading
Today’s artists—especially women—are sometimes criticized for speaking out, but for Baez, art and activism were indivisible | Continue reading
Experts had suggested a new epoch started in the mid-20th century, but the recent vote demonstrates how tough it is to pinpoint when humans' impact on the planet began | Continue reading
The out-of-place bird prompted the hotel to put its famed fountain show on hold before biologists captured and moved the bird—one of the country's ten rarest—to better habitat | Continue reading
Conservators have been working for a year to restore "Happy Choppers," which is going to auction on March 20 | Continue reading