Artworks by the Latvian-American Abstract Expressionist have been damaged before, but repairs have added up to hundreds of ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

The Smithsonian returns with its 5th annual National Education Summit, a free three-day conference for educators preparing to ...

Across his video and painting work, he deploys subtle and sophisticated shifts in tone, texture and surface, showing how the ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.

A silkscreen print of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands may have been put to the trash in a renovation, along with dozens of ...

The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator famed for his detail-oriented research on fishes ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...