By Cushman’s account, however, Chépart was “the last to receive his just reward.” Though he fled to his garden, “he was found ...

Creative circuitry and rolling robots make up this year’s top toys for teaching kids to love science, technology, engineering ...

Held on this day in 1895, the 54-mile round trip took more than ten hours and involved accidents with streetcars, horses and ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history ...

Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys ...

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

With tears in her eyes on the morning of November 27, 1978, Dianne Feinstein stepped in front of a gathering of San Francisco ...

Each year, millions of straw-colored fruit bats descend on Kasanka National Park for a few months, and scientists are working ...

The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time ...

Pre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., ...

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...