This year’s finalists carry us across landscapes and cultures, into moments with people and wildlife. Now, you too can select ...
Smithsonian study finds juvenile crabs rely on shrinking shallow-water habitats to escape cannibalism by adults ...
Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...
Through oral histories, 'We Do Declare' highlights women who created networks of economic support and opened pathways to ...
"Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini" had been on display in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome as part of a loan. Now, it's part of the palace's permanent collection ...
The massive reptile may have weighed more than 4.5 tons and been 35 feet long—much bigger than its related peers at the time ...
A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were listed inside copies of works by James Joyce, Upton Sinclair and Nicolaus ...
Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...
The birds are breeding earlier, and more of their chicks are surviving. But researchers fear this success may not last ...
The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...
The saying goes, “cats always land on their feet.” Scientists have investigated the physics of falling cats since at least ...
After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...