It’s not seaweed. They’ve been called the “lungs of the sea.” And while certain marine microbes could also compete for that ...

A new analysis of “il Principe,” an ancient, decorated skeleton found in northwest Italy, confirms that the child died up to three days after being brutally attacked ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are ...

Researchers analyzed proteins extracted from "How to Cure and Expel All Afflictions and Illnesses of the Human Body" and "A ...

The America’s Potluck website even features a downloadable bingo card with prompts like “Found someone who’s been to a ...

Two female jaguars were recorded making meow-like vocalizations in Brazil—the first documented audio of the sounds in the wild ...

If you’re looking for a beautiful view, Denmark has more than a few to enjoy. Take a look. A Note to our Readers Smithsonian ...

The collection includes shirts, sunglasses, a signed copy of South Africa's first post-apartheid constitution and a prison ...

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

One of its co-curators wants historians to expand on the display and “write a proper history” of this artistry ...

So, he and his colleagues induced heart attacks in mice and examined responses in the vagus nerve, which carries signals ...