Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the British Empire ...

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 ...

Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the ...

Ethiopian wolves like to lick up the flower nectar of red hot poker plants, and researchers have caught the behavior on camera ...

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

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

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

During a 1982 experiment, researchers recorded the unusual sound, termed “bio-duck.” Now, a researcher suggests they may have ...

The artist used white chalk to draw on blank advertising panels inside subway stations. Now, 31 surviving examples of these ...

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

Located in an English churchyard, the stone was inscribed with the name "Ebenezer Scrooge" for the 1984 movie. Police are ...