The animals' extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they ...

Dr. Brooke N. Newman is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and a fellow of the Royal Historical ...

A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston features paintings by Kahlo, works by artists she inspired and consumer ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have educated Black Americans. Now, a new exhibition highlights special objects from five ...

Officials have proposed building a mini-Sphere in Maryland's National Harbor. One-third the size of the original, the ...

Icicles form on a fence and reflect the blue sky after an ice storm. Alexandra Lennox, Canada, 2021. As snow melts and drips ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal as the first-prize winner of the ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...