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

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

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

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

During a 1982 experiment, researchers recorded the unusual sound, termed “bio-duck.” Now, a researcher suggests they may have ...

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

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

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

Ethiopian wolves like to lick up the flower nectar of red hot poker plants, and researchers have caught the behavior on camera ...

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