Katie Hitchcock-Smith is a freelance writer, photographer and explorer who has been published in National Geographic and ...

Meteorological tsunamis likely sank the 13th-century trading vessels, whose cargo included objects from both Christian ...

OK Go, Damian Kulash Jr. and Trish Sie | Smithsonian Magazine’s 2016 American Ingenuity Award Winners for Visual Arts ...

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

Also known as Sebastian, he died in 1729 and is buried alongside Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Paul Revere. His life tells a ...

Designed for the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, the desk is made from more than a dozen blocks of jagged, green-tinted ...

Researchers found evidence of malaria in Francesco I de' Medici's bones, leading them to argue "with scientific certainty" ...

Bernardo de Gálvez indirectly contributed to the Continental Army’s victory at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. A rare painting of ...

Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that form the ...

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...

Soumya Gayatri is a journalist from India, currently based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She writes about travel, architecture, ...

Taylor Swift and Beyoncé have achieved a degree of power in the music industry that singer/songwriters of earlier eras like ...