Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...

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 ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

I wasn’t necessarily looking to purchase a place listed on the National Register for Historic Places,” says Knight, “but when ...

The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance to berries, scientists say, allowing the creature ...

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, ...