The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...
Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar ...
The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope was built to study dark matter and dark energy, but for one day last year, it ...
In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...
On June 24, two quakes above magnitude 7 struck the northern part of the country only 39 seconds apart. While doublet ...
A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...
The Old Patent Office Building now houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. A new ...
The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate ...
Meanwhile, other institutions offer their air-conditioned spaces as a way for residents and tourists to beat the heat ...
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest remind us that amusement parks have entertained generations of ...
John Boepple settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he produced pearl buttons made from freshwater mussel shells. His innovations ...
Meanwhile, other actors are pushing back against the use of artificial intelligence in creative projects, including through a ...
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