New Fossils Discovered in China Hint That Complex Life Evolved Millions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought

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Thieves Who Allegedly Stole an Ancient Gold Helmet Belonging to a Lost European Culture Just Returned It

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Scientists Engineered Tobacco Plants to Produce Five Mind-Altering Psychedelic Compounds

Becoming an Expert Birder Can Reshape Your Brain and Might Help Protect It From Aging, New Research Suggests

This Danish Warship Exploded in Battle 225 Years Ago. Now, Archaeologists Are Racing to Recover Its Artifacts

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‘The Queen of the Ghetto’ Gave New York’s Immigrant Community a Voice. A Century Later, It’s Re-emerging

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The La Brea Tar Pits Have Been Sucking in Visitors for Millennia. Paleontologists Are Still Finding Out What Lies Within the Ooze

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Lightning Strikes on Jupiter Are 100 Times as Powerful as Those on Earth, a New Study Suggests

This Soldier Died of Yellow Fever During a Hurricane 153 Years Ago. Archaeologists Just Found His Grave

These Rotund and 'Charmingly Goofy' Birds Are Delighting New Yorkers and Dancing on Social Media. What Is the American Woodcock?

Doctors Used 'Digital Twins' of Patients' Hearts to Fix Their Irregular Heartbeats

The Endangered Proboscis Monkey Is Easily Identifiable By One Physical Trait: Its Supersized Schnoz

In a New Documentary, One of Britain's Most Famous Historians Reframes the American Revolution as a 'Messy Divorce'

The Gunboat ‘Philadelphia’ Lasted One Day in Battle. It’s Still Telling Us About the Revolution 250 Years Later.

See the Spectacular Winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 23rd Annual Photography Contest

See a Colorful Wall of Vintage iMacs and a Re-creation of Steve Jobs' Garage at a New Apple Museum in the Netherlands

Artemis Astronauts Overcome Toilet Trouble and Officially Head Toward the Moon

Despite Their Tiny Brains, Bumblebees Have a Surprising Sense of Rhythm, According to a New Study by Neuroscientists

The World's Longest Outdoor Escalator Just Opened in China. Riding the 3,000-Foot-Long System to the Top Takes More Than 20 Minutes

Rock Art Suggests the Tasmanian Tiger May Have Survived on Mainland Australia Longer Than Previously Thought

Meet Domino, a Tiny, Bumpy Fish Making a Splash in Chicago

The Titanic's Wealthiest Victim Was Carrying a Gold Pocket Watch When He Died. Now, It Could Sell for $500,000 at Auction

How the Chocolate Bunny Became the Mouthwatering Mascot of Easter Sweets

Are These the Earliest Known Dice in the World? Native Americans May Have Used Them to Play Games of Chance More Than 12,000 Years Ago

An Astronaut's Sudden Inability to Speak Prompted the ISS's First Medical Evacuation. Doctors Still Don't Know What Caused the Issue

Purple Martins Rely on Human 'Landlords' to Provide Nest Boxes Each Spring. Can That Dynamic Last?

Why Do So Few Mammals Go Through Menopause? And More Questions From Our Readers

Native Nations Fought in the American Revolution to Protect Their Ancestral Lands. After the War, Settlers Seized Their Territory Anyway

MoMA Plans a Retrospective for Marcel Duchamp, the Dada Artist Who Was Unimpressed With His Own Masterpieces

Experts Are Carefully Restoring a 15th-Century Masterpiece by Giovanni Bellini—and You Can Watch Them Work

This 500-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Claw-Bearing Predator Uncovers the Origins of Spiders, Scorpions and Other Arthropods

In a First, an Astronomer May Have Witnessed a Comet Stop Its Spin—Then Reverse Its Rotation

Spectators Flocked to the Artemis 2 Launch to Witness History Being Made. One Awed Viewer Called It 'the Best Thing Ever'

Sea Stars Can Lose an Arm and Soldier On. What If Robots Could Do the Same?

This Painting Was Thought to Be a Workshop Copy of a Rembrandt. Now, One Scholar Argues It's the Real Deal

How Do Snakes 'Stand' Upright Nearly Stick-Straight? New Research Points to How They Pull Off the Gravity-Defying Feat

This Massive Collection of More Than a Million Tools Tells the Striking History of Jewelry Making in America

The Spirited Revolutionary Who Led the Fight for Independence in Corsica Also Inspired America’s Colonial Rabble-Rousers

NASA's Artemis 2 Mission Launches, Sending Humans Toward the Moon for the First Time in More Than 50 Years

This Secret Passageway May Have Been Part of the Underground Railroad. Now, Preservationists Say It's in Danger

Humans Might Struggle to Make Babies in Space. Sperm Gets Disoriented in Microgravity, a New Study Suggests

What Did Ancient Pompeians Burn as Offerings to Their Gods? New Research Reveals the Surprising Answer

A Truck Driver Spent 20 Years Making This Astonishing Scale Model of Every Single Building in New York City

Could Python Blood Lead to the Next Generation of Weight-Loss Drugs?

These Snorkeling Scientists Stumbled Upon a Surprising Trove of Fossils in a Texas Water Cave

Is This 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic the First Known Image of a Woman Fighting Wild Beasts in an Ancient Roman Arena?

To Finance Their Lifestyle, a Young French Couple Went to Cambodia to Steal Antiquities. They Did Almost Everything Wrong

Six Awe‑Inspiring Ways to Celebrate America’s Space Legacy at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex