The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope was built to study dark matter and dark energy, but for one day last year, it ...
In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...
Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar ...
The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...
On June 24, two quakes above magnitude 7 struck the northern part of the country only 39 seconds apart. While doublet ...
A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...
The Old Patent Office Building now houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. A new ...
Meanwhile, other institutions offer their air-conditioned spaces as a way for residents and tourists to beat the heat ...
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest remind us that amusement parks have entertained generations of ...
Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in ...
The massive settlement, which spans more than a million square feet, likely dates to the late Iron Age or early Viking Age ...
For nearly a century, the gold standard for closing severe burn wounds has been split-thickness skin grafts. Surgeons remove ...
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