Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken ...

Hobbyist diver Dom Robinson jumped at the chance to purchase the S.S. "Almond Branch," a cargo ship that's been resting 190 feet beneath the surface of the English Channel since World War I ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

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

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

Created by artist Jennie C. Jones, the new exhibition features a trio of towering musical instruments made from concrete and aluminum ...