Every Veterans Day, Jeremy Redmon thinks about his father, Donald Lee Redmon — an Air Force veteran who survived more than ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston features paintings by Kahlo, works by artists she inspired and consumer ...

Icicles form on a fence and reflect the blue sky after an ice storm. Alexandra Lennox, Canada, 2021. As snow melts and drips ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have educated Black Americans. Now, a new exhibition highlights special objects from five ...

Officials have proposed building a mini-Sphere in Maryland's National Harbor. One-third the size of the original, the ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal as the first-prize winner of the ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...