The city of Boone has put a giant mural of the eastern hellbender downtown and its residents often imbibe a local Hazy IPA ...

The High Seas Treaty, which would allow nations to create marine protected areas in international waters, is now expected to ...

Called "The American Story," the new permanent exhibition will guide museumgoers through two million historic documents and artifacts ...

The lab-raised, male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs that will help suppress avian malaria ...

It’s all part of Little Critters: Nature Play, a free drop-in program where children ages 0–5 explore science and nature ...

Researchers could identify people with almost 97 percent accuracy based on 24 hours of their recorded breathing patterns, and ...

New research suggests long-billed curlews keep an ear out for warnings from prairie dogs in order to hide from predators and protect their nests ...

Armed with a tape recorder and open ears, Tony Schwartz turned everyday noise into lasting art. Now, his recordings live on at Smithsonian Folkways, where they continue to inspire new ways of ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

A century before LaCroix or Spindrift were refrigerator staples, factories in New York City were carbonating gallons and ...

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...