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After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

Diana Kruzman is a journalist reporting on religion, the environment and urbanism. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and Gizmodo, among other publications ...

A company called BlueGreen Water Technologies aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while also fighting algae’s toxic effects on people and the environment ...

The 2-year-old male tiger is now at home with the other residents of the Great Cats exhibit. Get the facts on how animal care teams helped this endangered animal adjust to his new surroundings.

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...

Ari Daniel, the host of Smithsonian magazine's "There's More to That" podcast, is an independent science journalist who has reported across six continents and contributes regularly to National Public ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...