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 ...

A new study looked at millions of recordings of birdsong and found that some species in areas with more light pollution are ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The toolmakers or their ancestors might have arrived on Sulawesi by clinging to vegetation during a storm, but their identities remain a mystery ...

Both Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd ate corn bread as children. He ate it from necessity; she ate it from tradition. The circumstances of their childhoods produced very different recipes. As adults, ...

VISITING What to know: The museum is open seven days a week, except Dec. 25, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, and passes are not required. For more information, go to ...

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