An earthen enclosure called the Octagon is drawing much-deserved attention to the state’s history-filled mounds built some ...

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and ...

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Grizzly 1058’s mother was Grizzly 399, a well-known bear that also lived in Grand Teton National Park. After Grizzly 399 was ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...

Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

These shots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why butterflies have floated into our hearts ...

For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe. They compared that genetic material to ...

The insects from this group were last seen in 2008 and will appear across the eastern U.S. for a brief, dramatic frenzy of ...

The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and ...