Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the "Philadelphia" is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian ...

Brown anoles around New Orleans have the highest blood concentrations of lead ever recorded in vertebrates—and scientists ...

Kokichi Akuzawa is an experienced climber who trained for his journey up the mountain by walking for one hour every morning ...

There’s more to farm life than waking up with the rooster’s cock-a-doodle-do to milk the cows. It’s also a culture that ...

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods ...

When the new Cotoni-Coast Dairies national monument opened to the public on August 16, the 5,800-acre property officially ...

Investigators pulled a 1960s Buick sedan from the waterway in central Minnesota that provides new details about a man’s ...

Scientists observed a family of four spectral bats in their roost in a tree in Costa Rica, capturing an inside look at their ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

Researchers set out to investigate how streaked shearwaters take off and instead were surprised to discover that the birds ...

During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost ...

Mexican tetras are a most peculiar fish species. They occur in many rivers and lakes across Mexico and southern Texas, where ...