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 ...

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

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

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

The artist used white chalk to draw on blank advertising panels inside subway stations. Now, 31 surviving examples of these ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...