Brandie Smith, who leads the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has seen more of pandas' private ...

Testing of ancient sediment from two lakes in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula has revealed "crazy" high concentrations of mercury, ...

Painted in 1930, "Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I" sat in the closet for 40 years, with only a single photograph, by O'Keeffe’s ...

More than five decades after hordes of prehistoric bones were unearthed from three caves in Granada, new forensic techniques ...

New technologies helped marine archaeologists recover the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War submarine ...

The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, have been hurtling through space for almost 50 years, stretching humanity's reach into ...

Satellite data suggests water in and around the huge area filled with human-made debris has become more blue-green over the ...

Hidden behind the scenes, life support system (LSS) staff are responsible for one of the most important jobs at the ...

More people are swapping animal products with vegan milks, yogurts and cheeses, so scientists wanted to investigate the ...

A tomb discovered in Siberia and associated with Scythians—a nomadic, horse-riding people that once roamed the Eurasian ...

The Smithsonian Archives of American Art digitized 89 oral history transcripts of women artists, historians, patrons, and ...