The strange-looking creatures are one of two known mammals that use a social structure like that of bees and ants. A ruling ...

Michael Scurr, a retired insurance broker, found the text while cataloging boxes of 18th-century correspondence housed at the ...

In a recent study, researchers dated a historic lahar called the Electron Mudflow to the summer of 1507, establishing a way ...

While the celestial body seems to host three features that could make a livable environment—an atmosphere, a rocky ...

Baseball was a way of life in the camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. The United States ...

Scientists confirmed the astronomer’s suspicions with an expedition to the site in Quebec. The discovery offers a rare case ...

In July 1925, a young science teacher named John Scopes was in court, accused of contravening the Butler Act—a Tennessee law ...

The landmark, nearly a millennium old, has housed kings, hosted royal executions and safeguarded Britain’s crown jewels. New ...

The landmark, nearly a millennium old, has housed kings, hosted royal executions and safeguarded Britain's crown jewels. New ...

Gemini 8 was in trouble. After completing the first space docking with another craft, it begins to spin uncontrollably.

Ellen Wexler is a staff writer and special projects editor, digital, for Smithsonian magazine. She covers history, ...

Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research A man who became paralyzed from the neck down after a diving accident six years ago ...