In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the ...

A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Father's Day will be here before you know it! Smithsonian Books has "dad books" galore for you to choose from to make his day ...

The timepiece belonged to Herbert Ingram, a British journalist and politician who died when the "Lady Elgin" sank in 1860. His watch was recovered from the bottom of the lake in 1992 ...

Abbott was an integral part of New York City's mid-century avant-garde art scene, but her better-known male colleagues have long dominated the movement's legacy ...

New research suggests the probiotic McH1-7 could help stop the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease among wild corals ...

The explosion was the strongest since 2021, expelling ash, dust, lava and a pyroclastic flow, but no injuries or deaths were ...

Located roughly 300 miles north of Lima in Río Abiseo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gran Pajatén complex ...

By: Dr. Krystal Klingenberg, a curator of music in the division of Culture and the Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...