The underground hideout, which will go to auction this month, was designed to shelter three people for two weeks in the event of an attack | Continue reading
New findings suggest bluestreak cleaner wrasse understand how their body size stacks up against a rival | Continue reading
The artifact likely belonged to the Picts, who occupied a large settlement in what is now the town of Burghead | Continue reading
The rare picture stone may depict Otto of Bamberg, the bishop who helped spread Christianity throughout the region | Continue reading
At the Battle of Stirling Bridge, William Wallace defeated the superior armies of Edward I, cementing his status as one of Scotland's most iconic heroes | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists witnessed Japanese eels free themselves from the stomach of a predatory fish in X-ray video footage | Continue reading
Amateur astronomers can use NASA's mobile app to find the ACS3 for themselves—a reflective satellite that could appear as bright as the star Sirius | Continue reading
The prolific American actor, who died on September 9, recorded his dialogue for the first "Star Wars" film in less than three hours | Continue reading
The Smithsonian museum accepted a detective suit and badge worn by the actress' character, Olivia Benson, on the long-running procedural | Continue reading
The Smithsonian museum accepted a detective suit and badge worn by the actress' character, Olivia Benson, on the long-running procedural | Continue reading
Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" anchors an exhibition commemorating the birth of the artistic movement 150 years ago | Continue reading
The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces defeated the Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers is making the waters safer | Continue reading
During the Great Genna Martyrdom, missionaries and laypeople alike were burned alive or beheaded. The violence coincided with Japan’s push to expel all foreign influences | Continue reading
The troubled spacecraft conducted a “bull's-eye landing,” but NASA officials still say they made the right decision to leave its astronauts on the ISS out of an abundance of caution | Continue reading
The gold and carnelian artifact is nearly identical to other jewelry found at an archaeological site in western Turkey | Continue reading
BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its fourth close pass of the innermost planet last week, and it will enter Mercury’s orbit in 2026 to learn more about its mysteries | Continue reading
Forecasts show no relief from the extreme heat over the next few weeks, which promises to extend the streak far beyond the previous high of 76 days set in 1993 | Continue reading
One-time Beatle Pete Best and his brother have turned the legendary Casbah Coffee Club into an Airbnb | Continue reading
The cataclysmic impactor was 20 times the size of the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth | Continue reading
"Money Talks" features currency from around the world spanning thousands of years—from ancient coins and historic banknotes to contemporary NFTs | Continue reading
Can automated restaurants still be community and cultural spaces, or will they become feeding stations for humans? These and other questions loom as new food tech reaches the market | Continue reading
Your feedback on escaped hippos, coastal defenses and ancient cultures | Continue reading
An unlikely duo exposed political corruption in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1914—and set a new precedent for fair voting across the country | Continue reading
The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for both a CIA-backed 1953 coup and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis | Continue reading
The spine-tingling roots of a mischievous Halloween tradition | Continue reading
Asteroid 2024 RW1 was discovered early this morning, marking the ninth time in history that humans have detected an approaching space rock before its impact | Continue reading
The dry cistern was discovered by construction crews working on the Smithsonian Castle’s renovation | Continue reading
It's rare for apex predators to become prey, but researchers suggest they've documented the first known case of a porbeagle shark getting consumed by another animal | Continue reading
Experts used X-ray technology to link the artifact—part of the famous Galloway Hoard—to an Iranian silver mine | Continue reading
The 17th-century painting, stolen in a 1979 heist, turned up at an auction in France in 2020. It recently returned home to Chatsworth House in England | Continue reading
Historical evidence is helping to pinpoint the exact locations of fabled sites, from King Arthur’s castle to Solomon’s Temple | Continue reading
Colorful, intricate drawings on view at the American Folk Art Museum are anything but simple | Continue reading
Triceratops and its relatives may have evolved the structures for fighting, impressing mates, and more | Continue reading
The plucky design behind the legendary instrument that forever changed the look of rock 'n' roll | Continue reading
The Great Migration transformed the nation—but millions of African Americans never left their Southern communities. Their unlikely success makes their stories all the more remarkable | Continue reading
An expedition this summer documented signs of deterioration on the wreck, but it also rediscovered the Diana of Versailles statue, the centerpiece of the ship’s first-class lounge | Continue reading
The rare discovery will help scientists find out more about the prehistoric animal’s development, diet and living conditions | Continue reading
The tenth-century stone figurine, alternatively identified as a pig, a bear or a dog, sheds light on the lives of long-ago Norse children | Continue reading
The short blade’s hilt was made in Edo Japan, and its journey to a German cellar destroyed during World War II is a mystery | Continue reading
Written by Smithsonian botanist W. John Kress, the book details more than 300 North American tree species in words, maps and photographs—and why we shouldn't take them for granted | Continue reading
A newly digitized set of records reveal the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North | Continue reading
Studying how the viruses, which do not infect humans, adapted to previous major temperature shifts could hold clues to how modern viruses will react to the current climate change | Continue reading
After a harrowing escape from the Philippines, the prickly American famously vowed "I shall return" from a remote train station before marshaling Allied forces to victory | Continue reading
During World War II, British officer Dudley Clarke led A Force, a Cairo-based military unit that fed false information to the Germans | Continue reading
A series of dolphin attacks in Wakasa Bay is believed to be the doing of a lone male bottlenose dolphin looking for friends or a mate—but finding only humans | Continue reading
The towering bronze sculpture by Khaleb Brooks will be installed at West India Quay in 2026 | Continue reading
A recent study could pave the way to cultivating various thornless plants, making them easier to grow and potentially more widely available | Continue reading
John Sainsbury hoped the note would be found when the "unnecessary columns" were finally demolished | Continue reading