A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and World War II, as many Americans would in 2020 ...

With the help of 3D modeling technology, a team of veterinary experts successfully carried out a rare spinal surgery on an 11 ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon’s life offers us lessons to navigate an unjust world and work toward change. From her role as a Civil ...

The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers' understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly's ...

Fifty years ago, on October 5, 1974, David Kunst completed the first verified circumnavigation of the globe on foot. Along ...

Though breast cancer mortality is declining overall, Asian American women and women under 50 have experienced an uptick in ...

Arthur “Jack” Schubarth cloned illegally imported genetic material from the Marco Polo argali to create hybrid sheep that ...

At the site known as Oued Beht, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a large farming settlement where people used advanced ...

In May of 1946, the United States Navy gave one of their own battleships, the USS Stewart, a burial at sea—sinking it in a ...

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for ...

The National Zoo gets a new state of the art Elephant Community Center complete with 8,943 square meters of romping room ...