By Cushman’s account, however, Chépart was “the last to receive his just reward.” Though he fled to his garden, “he was found ...

Creative circuitry and rolling robots make up this year’s top toys for teaching kids to love science, technology, engineering ...

Held on this day in 1895, the 54-mile round trip took more than ten hours and involved accidents with streetcars, horses and ...

The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history ...

Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys ...

With tears in her eyes on the morning of November 27, 1978, Dianne Feinstein stepped in front of a gathering of San Francisco ...

Pre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., ...

Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the ...

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he'd put on some weight and regained his strength ...

The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time ...