Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for ...

"The Luncheon on the Grass" caused a stir when it made its debut in 1863. A century and a half later, students defended the ...

Smithsonian intern shares her experience observing an oral history interview for We Do Declare, highlighting how women’s ...

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the ...

The discovery honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics takes phenomena observed in the subatomic world—the ...

For the first time ever, New York City’s Grand Central Terminal has been cleared of advertisements. In their place is Dear ...

Later, a man who said he was an archaeologist stumbled across the treasures and flagged them to one of the thrift shop’s ...

Wildlife biologists recently released 19 pine martens into Exmoor National Park, where they've been locally extinct for more ...

The biblical scenes by William Hogarth are a highlight of the North Wing at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, which is ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits the ability to perceive the trail in leafcutter ants, akin to blind spots whi ...

Nina Strochlic is a freelance journalist and former staff writer for National Geographic, who has covering conflict, ...

The epigenetic clock measures biological age and could help scientists assess the health of polar bears, dolphins, baboons ...