Humans perfected how to identify wild animals over millennia, and now biologists are rediscovering the exceptional worth of the tracks and marks left behind
A century on, the country’s most beloved Thursday spectacle reaches new heights
When the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village at Blue Water, dozens of plundered artifacts ended up in the Smithsonian. The unraveling of this long-buried atrocity is forging a path toward reconciliation
It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan's immense collection of books and art
Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system
The early polygraph machine was considered the most scientific way to detect deception—but that was a myth
The 2000 presidential election cemented the color-coded nature of political parties. Prior to that race, the colors were often reversed on electoral maps
A new exhibition co-presented by the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art explores the seminal artist’s work
The terms “snake oil” and “snake-oil salesperson” are part of the vernacular thanks to Clark Stanley, a quack doctor who marketed a product for joint pain in the late 19th century
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis
During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into powerful propaganda
From fish smoothies to oral antibiotics, researchers are taking matters into their own hands in a radical effort to save New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguins
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Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data can become a threat after they burst
Eight years into living in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, I embrace the seasonal plunge into total darkness
A small team of local scientists are fighting rapid industrialization, misinformation and more to save Europe’s iconic cat
The work of Diné artist DY Begay, now on view at the National Museum of the American Indian, blends tradition and modernity
As a child, the future president acquired a marine animal's skull, which became the first specimen in his natural history collection
It’s easy to write bugs off as pests, but consider the ways in which they have positively impacted our lives
The British explorer named dozens of geographical features and sites in the region, ignoring the traditions of the Indigenous peoples who’d lived there for millennia
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