Bids on "Gus" will start at $19 million, a steep price for public institutions. Specimens in private collections can be ...

The exact timeline for the spacecraft's display hasn’t been announced, but the artifact will fit into an upcoming exhibition ...

Built in the 1940s, Big Boy No. 4014 retired in 1961 after traveling for more than one million miles. It's now making its way ...

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Through her television shows, Julia Child shared her love for culinary arts with the world. Smithsonian magazine \| 3:56 ...

The discovery suggests humans may have maintained relationships with wolves long after domesticated dogs came on the scene ...

In a new report, the World Health Organization predicts that new annual diagnoses will rise from about 20.6 million today to ...

In celebration of National Rock Day, learn how several rock specimens in the new exhibition “From These Lands” shed light on ...

The population of eastern gray whales, which annually migrate along the West Coast between the Arctic and Mexico, has been ...

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...

Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that form the ...

John Pumphrey was still a boy when he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777. After archaeologists discovered his remains, ...