Artworks by the Latvian-American Abstract Expressionist have been damaged before, but repairs have added up to hundreds of ...

The popular salamanders are nearly extinct in the wild, where they are confined to a small system of canals in Mexico City.

After Paloma’s mother, the French painter Françoise Gilot, split with Picasso in the 1950s, she wrote a memoir about the ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Across his video and painting work, he deploys subtle and sophisticated shifts in tone, texture and surface, showing how the ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

The Smithsonian returns with its 5th annual National Education Summit, a free three-day conference for educators preparing to ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City ...

Cooking the famous, creamy pasta sauce is as delicious as it is frustrating, because the cheese tends to clump when exposed ...

After the house suffered extensive fire damage in 1940, generations of the Howard family have faithfully restored parts of ...