The 1,062 steps connecting the tower's second and third levels were installed in 1889. Fragments from the 137-year-old ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

The memorable tradition has a deep cultural history rooted in Buddhism and increasing global notoriety for its rowdy water ...

Found in Berlin, the artwork was probably damaged in the chaotic aftermath of World War II. Despite the gaping hole in the ...

The artwork depicts the bombing of a Basque village in 1937. Now, the relocation debate is raising questions about how to ...

Since 2018, the American Women's History Initiative Pool has funded more than 200 projects across the Smithsonian, supporting research, collections, and programming that make women's history visible ...

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception ...

The patient was bedridden and needed daily blood transfusions, and she had tried nine different therapies that didn't bring ...

Researchers think the newly unearthed structure was used to fire and cure bricks during construction of the site’s original mansion in the early 1770s ...

The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since ...

Michael Christopher Brown Unusually for a major tourist attraction, the phrase “death trap” features prominently in the ...