Whether you call it a butterfly or a sandwich, though, researchers have now confirmed the nature of this intriguing spot in ...

The Apollo 8 lunar module pilot also served in the U.S. Air Force and worked extensively on nuclear energy projects ...

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the ...

During World War II, the Nazis stole two 17th-century paintings from a Jewish family in France. After spending decades at the ...

A new study suggests people in the Eurasian steppe bred horses around 2200 B.C.E., challenging earlier ideas about the ...

A genetic analysis of opulent burial mounds in Germany sheds new light on how power passed through family lines ...

A stagnant high-pressure system over the region is trapping heat, exacerbating high temperatures and setting records Will ...

From field sites in Vietnam and the coast of west Africa to her laboratory in Washington, D.C., Kate Bemis applies her ...

Scientists plan to use what they learn to help restore communities harmed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Robin Catalano ...

Let's take a closer look at the model. During filming, the model balanced on a single-point stand attached to a geared head ...

For hundreds of years, Pompeii remained buried under its volcanic blanket. It was rediscovered in the late 16th century, and ...

In 1939 Moritz Schoenberger, a Hungarian Jew living in Vienna, wanted to join his family in America. His ordeal is told at the National Postal Museum Michael Kernan The Soap Box Derby, a peculiarly ...