"Art About Art" bills itself as a thoughtful, whimsical exploration of the connections between past and present | Continue reading
The birds were driven to local extinction in the 18th century, but the new chicks provide hope for a comeback amid reintroduction efforts | Continue reading
Keepers hope the young male will have his own "little cloudies" one day, helping maintain the vulnerable species' captive population | Continue reading
Twelve years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the move is a polarizing step toward decommissioning the defunct power plant | Continue reading
Public health experts are borrowing a technique from the tech world in hopes of spurring patients to get preventative care | Continue reading
Charles Martinet has voiced the famous character in more than 100 games since the 1990s | Continue reading
A newly discovered letter suggests a Newfoundland named Rebel accompanied both Continental and British officers into battle | Continue reading
Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, city officials are trying to relocate the bouquinistes for security reasons | Continue reading
Light-sensitive proteins in the fish's skin could play a role in monitoring how they camouflage, researchers theorize in a new study | Continue reading
Archaeologists unearthed the settlement—which had tens of thousands of defensive spikes—beneath a lake in Albania | Continue reading
Two journalists who chronicle explorers, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, reflect on what visiting the depths of the ocean can—and can't—teach us | Continue reading
The greasers and Socs from S.E. Hinton's popular novel will spar on stage this spring | Continue reading
A new film explores how Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir navigated the 1973 Yom Kippur War | Continue reading
The baby might be the only all-brown giraffe on the planet, as the last one on record was born in 1972 | Continue reading
Volunteers will convene in the Scottish Highlands armed with drones, hydrophones and other technologies | Continue reading
No other mission has successfully touched down in this scientifically interesting moon region, which contains water ice in lunar craters | Continue reading
T. Kimball Brooker has amassed a collection of more than 1,300 texts from the 16th century | Continue reading
Patients' own stem cells could help them recover from chemical burns that damaged a single eye, a small, preliminary study suggests | Continue reading
Conservationists battled back flames to prevent them from reaching roughly 40 ‘akikiki in captivity | Continue reading
A new generation of private space stations is opening up a promising frontier for movies and television shows | Continue reading
Researchers are trying to identify the men who died after the Battle of Williamsburg in 1862 | Continue reading
Yosemite Facelift is an annual park-wide cleanup effort that started 20 years ago | Continue reading
The section of rainforest is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world and home to several Indigenous communities | Continue reading
Scientists have linked shifts in the distant planet's cloud coverage to the ever-oscillating solar cycle, which is due to peak soon | Continue reading
In "Beyond Granite: Pulling Together," six artists have created works for a month-long display | Continue reading
The sweet dessert is an important part of the culinary identity of so many places that people sometimes dispute claims to its origins | Continue reading
The new recreation shows what the prince might have looked like during the 1745 Jacobite rising | Continue reading
Huey P. Newton has been mythologized and maligned since his murder 34 years ago. His family and friends offer an intimate look inside his life and mind | Continue reading
Iowa schools are struggling to comply with new laws banning books that aren't "age appropriate" | Continue reading
After jumping a security barrier, the visitors were found between the landmark's second and third floors | Continue reading
The National Hurricane Center downgraded Hilary to a post-tropical storm, though it warned of continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding | Continue reading
Several groups were working to remove the 7,000-pound creature from the Miami Seaquarium and return her to the ocean at the time of her death | Continue reading
Astronomers say the distinct, punctuation-like shape could be a result of galaxies merging | Continue reading
The museum says its reputation was badly damaged by a scandal it describes as "stranger than fiction" | Continue reading
Some 1,800 years ago, the Hirota people practiced intentional cranial modification | Continue reading
This summer, a podcast series from the National Air and Space Museum discusses Operation Pedro Pan, Latino Futurism and “Star Wars” | Continue reading
Researchers used lidar to uncover nearly 1,000 previously unknown features of the famous battlefield | Continue reading
NOAA is still reviewing the proposal for the 7,000-square-mile swath of the Pacific Ocean off of Central California | Continue reading
The deadly combination likely led several species to disappear from Southern California during the late Pleistocene | Continue reading
The painting of Bélizaire, 15, shown behind the children of his enslavers, has been acquired by the Met | Continue reading
The insect, detected in Georgia, can snatch bees from the air while hunting, posing a threat to native pollinators and agriculture | Continue reading
It’s fair to say these highlights from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest are worth a trip down the midway | Continue reading
Nat Read finally completed his 21,000-mile journey last month in Brunswick, Maine | Continue reading
The logistics of moving patients across the U.S. by rail were staggeringly complex | Continue reading
At a Belgian university, Taylor Swift fans can expect intertextual analysis beyond their wildest dreams | Continue reading
The pack, which consists of a mother and her four offspring, is now the state’s southernmost wolf group | Continue reading
A pair of great white sharks named Simon and Jekyll have been swimming together for more than 4,000 miles in recent months | Continue reading
Cooper Hewitt recognizes talented trailblazers who are at the forefront of their fields | Continue reading