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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Florida, large mats of sargassum are increasingly washing ashore, creating another obstacle for loggerhead, leatherback ...

Christie’s is shutting down its digital art division—a significant pivot for the auction house, which helped ignite the art ...

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

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

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health ...