An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...

Snakes bite five million people each year, killing some 125,000 and disfiguring or blinding three times as many. Antivenoms ...

Researchers around the world are attempting to create a safer and more effective treatment in hopes of saving hundreds of thousands of lives ...

A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...

Over a decade ago, NASA launched two probes to investigate the Van Allen belts —two rings of high-energy particles that ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

"Pokémon Fossil Museum" in Chicago compares "fossil Pokémon" from the popular franchise to the real-world creatures they're based on ...