Seven guest collaborators bring new eyes to a Smithsonian museum founder’s collection of American art | Continue reading
Many offbeat research efforts were doomed to fail, from atomic subways to a city under the ice. | Continue reading
Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days later, he died of unknown causes at a private mental health facility | Continue reading
A new study identified the tiny pollutants in the olfactory bulbs of eight cadavers, suggesting microplastics can travel through the nose to the brain | Continue reading
New research suggests the sarcophagus' occupant, previously known only as "the horseman," is Joachim du Bellay, a French Renaissance poet who died in 1560 | Continue reading
The vertical sign stretched across three stories of the Manhattan hotel, which once welcomed the likes of Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol and Janis Joplin | Continue reading
The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine million years ago | Continue reading
The Cuban-American actor and producer has stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, but this new honor pays tribute to his start as a musician in South Florida | Continue reading
The artist's cityscapes, once dismissed as too masculine, would later influence the floral artworks that became central to her iconic style | Continue reading
The artist's cityscapes, once dismissed as too masculine, would later influence the floral artworks that became central to her iconic style | Continue reading
Kleptoparasitism, in which a bird harasses another to steal its food, might introduce avian flu to the continent, currently the only one without the severe H5N1 strain | Continue reading
The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten disciplines | Continue reading
When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French—who had traveled hundreds of miles into Russia—were left without vital resources as a brutal winter approached | Continue reading
Archaeologists unearthed a series of mudbrick rooms filled with religious tributes, soldiers' personal effects, engraved weaponry and animal bones | Continue reading
A new paper analyzes three decades of fatalities around the world and predicts how "superbugs" will affect human health in the future | Continue reading
Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the country | Continue reading
Experts have confirmed that "Knight, Death and the Devil" is an engraving by the renowned German artist Albrecht Dürer | Continue reading
"A Soldier's Journey," a 58-foot-long bronze artwork depicting vivid scenes from the war, was illuminated for the first time at a ceremony on September 13 | Continue reading
In a twist befitting its pages, the satirical, anti-establishment publication that delivered laughs and hijinks to generations of young readers gets the respect it always deserved with a new museum exhibition | Continue reading
Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her wartime experiences. Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the conflict in secret | Continue reading
Officials launched an investigation and recovered the $360,000 print less than a week after it vanished from Grove Gallery. Two men have been charged for the crime | Continue reading
The noisy-but-shy bird, known as the hoiho, has earned the most votes for a second time amid threats to its survival | Continue reading
"Le Lyonnais" descended into the depths off the coast of Massachusetts after colliding with the "Adriatic," a sailing vessel that left the floundering steamship to fend for itself | Continue reading
Two Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority railcars were added to an artificial reef off the coast of Georgia to create more wildlife habitat | Continue reading
A melting glacier caused a mountain in Greenland to collapse into a narrow fjord, setting off an oscillating wave that rattled seismic detectors around the world | Continue reading
Investigators discovered that the original print of "The Roaring Lion" had been sold to a buyer in Italy | Continue reading
In a new book, a curator at England's Natural History Museum describes rare and interesting nests and eggs—from the house sparrow to the village weaver—and the lessons they hold for avian conservation | Continue reading
Officials in Extremadura are hoping to attract digital nomads and tech workers in a bid to boost the region's shrinking population | Continue reading
New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources before the arrival of Europeans | Continue reading
Scientists continue to learn new things about the planet, its sweeping rings and its many moons | Continue reading
September’s full moon delivers a rare trifecta for lunar enthusiasts: a supermoon, a partial eclipse and a harvest moon | Continue reading
The historic text, which bears the signature of Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson, was one of 100 copies ordered on September 28, 1787 | Continue reading
From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these otherworldly sights are captured in sharp detail by astrophotographers from around the world | Continue reading
At an upcoming exhibition, the Smithsonian museum will display works by the two boundary-breaking artists for the first time | Continue reading
The young architect created the Winslow house for a couple living in a suburb of Chicago in 1893. The project would help launch his independent career | Continue reading
New research indicates that birds are not alone while migrating—and sharing space with other species may even help them on the journey | Continue reading
Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of the mind such as mood, pleasure and fear | Continue reading
The French Ministry of Culture has selected eight finalists to design replacement windows for the celebrated cathedral—and not everyone is happy | Continue reading
These Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images celebrate our feathered friends | Continue reading
Henry Hale Bliss' death presaged the battle between the 20th-century automobile lobby and walkers in U.S. cities | Continue reading
A new study, based on the remains of a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin, is shaking up what archaeologists long thought about these early humans in Europe | Continue reading
This morning, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman opened the hatch on a SpaceX Dragon capsule in Earth orbit, as cheering erupted on a livestream | Continue reading
The winning and highly commended underwater photography spotlights breathtaking animal behavior, conservation needs and the otherworldly environment of Earth's oceans | Continue reading
Unearthed at the Łysa Góra archaeological site, the artifact, some 2,300 years old, is a prime example of Celtic metalworking | Continue reading
During Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese around the world eat the miniature molded and filled cakes to wish their families wealth and happiness | Continue reading
Use the interactive tool's week-by-week, county-by-county predictions to start planning your leaf-peeping trips across the United States | Continue reading
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System has put nearly 50,000 incredibly lightweight radio transmitters on birds, bats and insects. We caught up with an ornithologist to learn more about where these creatures are flying | Continue reading
Just 400 northern hairy-nosed wombats remain in the wild, and conservationists say the new videos signal the critically endangered species’ breeding success | Continue reading