After analyzing bone fragments found in millennia-old trash piles, researchers say that people may have brought livestock ...

The decision ends a longstanding agreement between the National Gallery and the Tate concerning what kinds of art each museum ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the ...

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...

See images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest and find out for yourself why Spain is so special. Donny Bajohr is the ...

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers non-invasively and precisely directed ultrasound beams to target a location ...

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

At least some of the barrels contain caustic alkaline waste, which has made the surrounding ecosystems inhospitable to most life forms, a new study suggests ...

New research suggests that the famous bronze statue may have originally guarded a Chinese tomb before arriving in Venice in ...

The invasive arachnids were first spotted in the park last year, and now, researchers hope to keep tabs on when and where ...