Researchers think a coral-covered vessel discovered off the Kenyan coast could be the "São Jorge," a galleon that sank 500 ...
Geologists are working with local communities to determine how residents can adapt as the area's sea level, in effect, goes ...
A web of technical failures, human errors and corporate malpractice in Bhopal, India, culminated in an unthinkable tragedy on ...
A new, “mind-blowing” discovery reveals evidence that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei stepped at the same site within ...
The term refers to "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state" that's linked to spending ...
While Neanderthals have been found to create glue-like substances with other materials, this finding, if confirmed, would be ...
At an exhibition in England, curators have placed artworks alongside diffusers that dispense carefully crafted fragrances, ...
In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of ...
Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on ...
Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...
Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...
What is included in the Smithsonian magazine digital edition? The Smithsonian magazine digital edition includes all the editorial content and photos from the current print issue of Smithsonian ...