Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

I wasn’t necessarily looking to purchase a place listed on the National Register for Historic Places,” says Knight, “but when ...

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance to berries, scientists say, allowing the creature ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Made by a printer in New Hampshire, this 1776 broadside edition was created to disseminate America's founding document to the ...

President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among ...

Ivan Kashinsky has traveled the world for Smithsonian magazine, but when disaster struck earlier this month, he rushed home ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, ...

It’s long been rumored that a network of old, underground tunnels lies beneath Cusco, Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan ...