Astronomers have long debated what kind of chemistry might serve as a bona fide alien biosignature | Continue reading
The Panda House's eight occupants have played a key role in conservation efforts over the decades | Continue reading
These highlights from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest feature our close “cousins” | Continue reading
Visitors have been getting too close to the marine mammals—taking selfies and even harassing them—as they rear their pups | Continue reading
Zeng Yuxuan, 23, was sentenced to six months in prison on charges of sedition | Continue reading
Using a new and noninvasive technique, researchers analyzed the DNA of 33 lungfish in institutions across the U.S. and Australia to determine their ages | Continue reading
The site was the backdrop for critical moments in Native American, African American and Japanese American history | Continue reading
Entrepreneurs are using jewelry, fragrances and clothing to demonstrate what’s possible with repurposed carbon—and environmentalists have questions | Continue reading
Through survivor interviews and brain scans during CPR, researchers looked for evidence of awareness when people's hearts had stopped | Continue reading
Last year, a German court officially recognized the persecution of trans people by Adolf Hitler's regime | Continue reading
The new trail, which winds through Boise, celebrates the top spud-growing state in the nation | Continue reading
A summer full of news reports about orca, otter and bird “attacks” has the public wondering if trying to understand animal behavior in human terms may be t | Continue reading
But nearly half of those living with the condition don't know they have it, according to the organization's first report on hypertension | Continue reading
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