Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...
Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals but aren't found in reptiles, birds or amphibians ...
Diana Kruzman is a journalist reporting on religion, the environment and urbanism. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and Gizmodo, among other publications ...
A company called BlueGreen Water Technologies aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while also fighting algae’s toxic effects on people and the environment ...
The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...
Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Made by a printer in New Hampshire, this 1776 broadside edition was created to disseminate America's founding document to the ...
Though sales of Frisbees remained steady, it wasn’t until Wham-O hired toy inventor Ed Headrick in 1964 as head of research ...
Ari Daniel, the host of Smithsonian magazine's "There's More to That" podcast, is an independent science journalist who has reported across six continents and contributes regularly to National Public ...
The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance to berries, scientists say, allowing the creature ...
Experts think the well-preserved bronze artifact was made between 500 and 450 B.C.E. It will be sold at auction on January 25 ...