Fifty years ago, on October 5, 1974, David Kunst completed the first verified circumnavigation of the globe on foot. Along ...

A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and World War II, as many Americans would in 2020 ...

Sensitive instruments onboard the plane detected hundreds of events producing gamma rays in storms over the Caribbean and ...

Lizzy, the avatar based on the novel’s Elizabeth Bennet, will hold period-accurate conversations with visitors at Jane Austen ...

Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to their lost ancestry. Read about Gardner’s project and process, as well as more details about the ...

Arthur “Jack” Schubarth cloned illegally imported genetic material from the Marco Polo argali to create hybrid sheep that ...

Experts say that the trove of silver currency is official treasure and includes coins from England and Ireland ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for ...

At the site known as Oued Beht, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a large farming settlement where people used advanced ...

Though breast cancer mortality is declining overall, Asian American women and women under 50 have experienced an uptick in ...

The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers' understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly's ...

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