A man of the people, the artist put his money where his mouth was by visiting prisons around the country and performing the song ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

European flat oysters have nearly disappeared from the region. Now, researchers are helping them recover by depositing the ...

A study examining fossilized droppings reveals the kākāpō has faced a decline in the diversity of its parasites—and that ...

Researchers thought leaf-toed geckos were locally extinct on Rábida Island, so they were thrilled to find several of the ...

The 62-acre settlement was likely established in the fourth century B.C.E. Researchers think it may have served as a major trading hub ...

Rocks found along the Colorado River in Arizona turned out to contain fossilized fragments of soft-bodied creatures, ...

The HMS "Hind," later renamed the "Earl of Chatham," was a frigate in the British Royal Navy before it was repurposed as a ...

As the Smithsonian presents the aviator’s restored Vega in Washington, a special replica of the aircraft quietly re-emerges ...

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and the author of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon.

Artists such as Rembrandt, the Pre-Raphaelites and Georgian caricaturists used their craft to examine the morality and ...

A thin piece of gold reached 33,740 degrees Fahrenheit, which is more than 14 times higher than its melting point, by being rapidly heated—and it didn't melt ...