Cast your vote for your favorite of the photographs, which are all contenders for the People’s Choice award, through January ...

So far, only two of the four lynx have been recaptured, leaving authorities scrambling across the snowy woods to find the ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...

Challenge trials help researchers study immune responses. Skeptics still doubt the approach is worth the risks ...

The annual event takes place in the Massachusetts town of New Bedford, which is where Herman Melville's celebrated 1851 novel ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" ...

Species in Lake Victoria, Lake Titicaca, Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone and the Western Ghats of India are particularly vulnerable to ...

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help ...

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...

View 15 awe-inspiring images of this range from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...