The Smithsonian’s collections speak to the resolve and ingenuity of America’s service members A chess set used during the ...

Released this week, "The Land of Sweet Forever" includes stories the author wrote in the years before her debut novel became ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

An anchor, basket handles, jars and other artifacts were found among the cargoes at the three sites, the oldest of which ...

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

Individual athletes ran an average of 4,000 miles over a year to help define the human body's limit for energy expenditure ...

Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, earning every major U.S. military honor ...

The British adventurer has crossed the Atlantic solo in a plane and a boat. Now he reads tree leaves, puddles and moss to get ...

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

Around 100 of the French Impressionist painter's lesser-known paper works are now on view at New York City's Morgan Library ...

A new retrospective at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia examines the career of the 20th-century French painter, who ...