Chloe Yehwon Lee’s research could change the painkiller, known by the brand name Tylenol, for the better, ultimately reducing emergency room visits and cases of liver failure | Continue reading
Adult males are waking up from their winter hibernation—and they're on the hunt for food | Continue reading
Scientists say they’ve never seen anything like this “truly unique” species, which was found encased in amber | Continue reading
You’ve got questions. We’ve got experts | Continue reading
Long overlooked, the artist made pioneering works in the early 20th century. Today she’s a global star—but some scholars insist she should be sharing the spotlight | Continue reading
Sea lions, dolphins and birds are sick and dying because of a toxic algae bloom in Southern California—and animal care organizations are overwhelmed by the scale | Continue reading
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an observation of Neptune's lights remained elusive for decades | Continue reading
One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country | Continue reading
Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted to grasp and feed on vegetation | Continue reading
By toying with perspective, this year’s best photos capture the sublime—and the uncanny | Continue reading
Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize? That, and so much more, is what you get with a Cracker Jack | Continue reading
An amateur archaeologist recently encouraged researchers to take another look at the Farley Moor standing stone, which was once part of a bigger ceremonial site | Continue reading
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the California desert | Continue reading
Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be held accountable for frequenting brothels | Continue reading
The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave | Continue reading
The collection, which dates to the first century C.E., includes items ranging from elaborately decorated horse harnesses to ornate cauldrons | Continue reading
Every 13 to 15 years, Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible | Continue reading
Found by a metal detectorist in England, the item features a sapphire surrounded by two emeralds and two stones that are either garnets or rubies | Continue reading
Researchers detected short clicking noises from rig sharks during handling in the lab, though they're not sure why or how the sound is produced | Continue reading
From surprising squirrel migrations to islands popping up out of nowhere, the organization’s scientists tracked strange events as they happened | Continue reading
The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on permanent display | Continue reading
The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process | Continue reading
The 19th-century English poet was a "prolific reviser" who tested out many variations of his work before publication. A new study sheds light on his creative process | Continue reading
Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades | Continue reading
When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who performed hard labor | Continue reading
Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip in stunningly well-preserved wax | Continue reading
The 33-year-old raptor had parented two orphaned chicks since gaining international attention for sitting on a rock in 2023 | Continue reading
The birthplace of the Buddha beckons worshipers from around the world, as well as researchers hoping to dig up new evidence about the revered spiritual leader | Continue reading
Two centuries after they were separated, the print and the Bible are on display together at the Huntington Library in California | Continue reading
In lab experiments, spiders changed how they constructed their webs in noisy environments, and rural and urban spiders responded differently | Continue reading
Finland took the top spot in this year's World Happiness Report, while the United States dropped to its lowest ranking yet | Continue reading
This year marks the writer's 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O'Connor revealed how candid confrontations with darkness lead to moments of reckoning | Continue reading
Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar disorder | Continue reading
The winning photographs highlight the diversity of animal and plant life in Britain as well as the often hidden behaviors of wild creatures | Continue reading
The findings suggest galaxies formed much more quickly than astronomers assumed | Continue reading
Experts think the renowned Austrian Symbolist painted the artwork in 1897. An art gallery in Vienna has priced it at $16 million | Continue reading
Research in Honduras shows that humans began selecting for larger fruits with thicker rinds as early as 7,500 years ago—long before maize arrived in the region | Continue reading
Male Galápagos yellow warblers appear to be shifting their behavior and adjusting their calls in response to the din of passing vehicles | Continue reading
Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a family in France since the mid-1800s | Continue reading
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E. | Continue reading
In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical footprint of the rock identified the source to be more than 400 miles away | Continue reading
A journey into the vast subterranean grounds preserved under Rome—from ancient aqueducts and apartment buildings to pagan shrines | Continue reading
Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior | Continue reading
Researchers found the channel on historic grounds near the country's capital, Bratislava | Continue reading
When the A-84 iceberg calved in January, it unveiled a 209-square-mile swath of seafloor. Nearby scientists rushed to the scene for the “unprecedented” look below | Continue reading
Hop through these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest | Continue reading
Astronomers thought dark energy was a constant. But now, findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument provide even more evidence that it may be fluctuating | Continue reading
The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year | Continue reading