The dazzling, blush-colored gems likely emerged from Earth's mantle some 1.3 billion years ago, when a supercontinent named Nuna broke up, study suggests | Continue reading
The institution will also repatriate two additional looted items discovered during investigations | Continue reading
A reimagined tool called BirdCast is helping birders, scientists and even farmers | Continue reading
Priced at nearly $10 million, "A Walk in the Woods" was the subject of the artist's 1983 television premiere | Continue reading
New research suggests adult humans have between 28 trillion and 36 trillion cells, which follow a commonly seen distribution of size and mass | Continue reading
Located on an empty lot, the immersive art show has a simple message: "Give it back" | Continue reading
Staff remain hopeful that members of the threatened species will be back in Washington in the near future | Continue reading
The painting scandalized 19th-century viewers and heralded the dawn of modern art | Continue reading
Birds—and humans—are vocal learners, meaning they can imitate new vocalizations and use them to communicate | Continue reading
Aspen Brown stumbled upon the pea-sized, golden-brown gem while visiting an Arizona park | Continue reading
Indigenous tracking experts determined the species, sex, age group and leg of depicted animals in hundreds of carvings of footprints | Continue reading
The agency has been trying to protect Ukraine's historic sites since the beginning of the war with Russia | Continue reading
The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, celebrates 100 years | Continue reading
After paleontologists cracked the secrets of the ancient flying reptiles, researchers are thinking about how to harness their methods | Continue reading
Researchers don't know the purpose of the brick arch, which leads to a set of stairs descending deeper underground | Continue reading
The 20-inch miniature is going to auction, where bidding starts at $200,000 | Continue reading
If endorsed by the FDA, the drug would become the first psychedelic approved for mental health treatment in the United States | Continue reading
The prestigious awards will soon be open to permanent residents and those who call the U.S. their "longtime primary home" | Continue reading
A new exhibition examines the more than 1,000 resorts and hotels that dotted New York's Catskills Mountains and provided relaxation, dancing and laughs | Continue reading
Scientists find we are “well outside the safe operating space for humanity” in a new study meant to assess the health of our planet | Continue reading
In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery | Continue reading
However, no explanation can be ruled out, per the agency, which also appointed its first director of research into the subject | Continue reading
For Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs through October 15, enjoy these highlights from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest | Continue reading
The red jumper’s design came to symbolize the princess' relationship with the royal family | Continue reading
Winning research projects reanimated dead spiders and examined how anchovy sexual activity influences ocean mixing | Continue reading
Underwater archeologists in Malta worked with the U.S. government to identify the airman, a 22-year-old from California | Continue reading
Astronomers have found two candidates for this rare type of galaxy, surrounded by a halo of hydrogen gas—and they could provide insights about dark matter | Continue reading
The little opening for felines has a surprisingly long history | Continue reading
Self-described UFO expert Jaime Maussan, whose claims of extraterrestrials have been debunked in the past, said the specimens were "non-human" | Continue reading
Many of the works, estimated to be at least 24,000 years old, employ a rare clay painting technique | Continue reading
The approvals bring cultivated meat one step closer to becoming a feasible alternative to traditional meat for a wider audience | Continue reading
Arthur Brand, the "Indiana Jones of the art world," negotiated the recovery of an 1884 canvas taken from a Dutch museum in March 2020 | Continue reading
Twenty years of habitat restoration has helped the once critically endangered Azores bullfinch | Continue reading
Eighty years ago, German soldiers killed an estimated 500 Cretans in Viannos and Ierapetra in retaliation for an attack by local partisans | Continue reading
Phenylephrine, a popular ingredient in over-the-counter remedies, is no better than a placebo, per the panel | Continue reading
Today, they rank at the top of lists of U.S. states most at risk from climate change | Continue reading
Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, the work will be based on the accounts of mothers who traveled 3,000 miles to get their loved ones back | Continue reading
When Frank Rubio returns from the International Space Station on September 27, he will have spent 371 consecutive days in space | Continue reading
The intrepid Victorian-era author proved that a lady’s life could be in the mountains, and I am forever grateful for that | Continue reading
Fallout from nuclear tests conducted in the mid-20th century may contribute to the high levels of radiation seen in the animals today, a new study finds | Continue reading
A UNESCO representative says the country has suffered an "inestimable loss" | Continue reading
Erlend Bore unearthed a trove of 1,500-year-old gold jewelry—just months after he picked up the hobby | Continue reading
After enforcing the rule for three decades, officials say that lifting it will prevent overcrowding and attract younger audiences | Continue reading
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom, including some that look very much like REM | Continue reading
Experts say the latest boosters are effective against emerging variants including EG.5.1 and BA.2.86 | Continue reading
The novelist recounted the harrowing ordeal in a letter, which just sold for $237,055 at auction | Continue reading
The observatory detected evidence of methane and carbon dioxide—and tentatively observed a molecule that, on Earth, is only made by living things | Continue reading
Made with recycled materials, the large-scale sculptures are meant to encourage visitors to get out into nature | Continue reading