Octopus Sex Just Got Weirder. In Addition to Depositing Sperm, Males' Specialized Mating Arm Can 'Taste' Female Hormones

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A Mysterious, Monumental Scroll on Public Display for the First Time Paints a Picture of Artistic Fusion in Colonial India

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Chiringuitos Offer the Quintessential Beach Bar Experience on Spain's Costa del Sol

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Jesus's Burial Cloth or Medieval Forgery? DNA Evidence Further Complicates the Debate Over the Shroud of Turin

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Watch These Rock-Climbing Fish Scale a 50-Foot Waterfall in the Congo Basin, the First Known Evidence of This Behavior in Africa

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What Lies Beyond Artemis 2? These Other Missions Are Setting Their Sights on the Moon This Year—and on a Future With Humans in Space

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A Small Rodent Hero Left a Giant Legacy. Now, Cambodia Honors This Famous Bomb-Sniffing Rat With a Seven-Foot Statue

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This Punjabi Princess Fought for Women's Suffrage and Sheltered Refugees During World War II. A Goddaughter of Queen Victoria, She Rejected British Imperialism

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Long Before Machine Guns, Ancient Roman Troops Used This 2,000-Year-Old Rapid-Fire Weapon in Pompeii, New Research Suggests

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Hear From a Wildlife Photographer's Dramatic Glimpse Into the Dwindling World of the Cascade Red Fox

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What's Inside America's Lost Luggage? These Travelers Abandoned a Samurai Sword, a Meteorite and a Robot With a Mysterious Purpose

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Follow in the Footsteps of the Founders and Have a Drink Where They Planned the Revolution Over a Few Beers

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This Fossil Held the World Record for the Earliest Known Octopus. Turns Out, It's Not an Octopus After All

Archaeologists Didn’t Expect to Find Anything at This Site in England. Then, They Stumbled Upon a Roman Villa and a Bronze Artifact Dubbed 'Norfolk Nessie'

Freshwater Fish Migrations Are Disappearing Across the Planet, Finds UN Report

Can Frida Kahlo Leave Mexico? Plans to Relocate a Trove of Paintings by the Famous Artist Spark a Heated Debate

Shakespeare Gardens Around the World Honor the Playwright—and Hold Their Own Storied History

See the 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Roman Cargo From an Accidental Shipwreck Discovered at the Bottom of a Lake in Switzerland

What Is a Shark? A New Genetic Analysis Throws an 'Unexpected Wrench' Into Our Understanding of the Ocean Predators

Earth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss

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Customer Loyalty Was Once Measured in Green Stamps. And the More You Shopped, the Bigger the Rewards

How Australian Chefs and Farmers are Rediscovering the Ingredients That Have Been There All Along

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

See the Awe-Inspiring New Photos of the Moon and Earth Sent Back From the Artemis 2 Mission

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

See the Amazing Images That Showcase the Short, Brilliant Lives of Honeybees Throughout the Seasons

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

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

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

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