Long thought to be a family heirloom, the artwork was actually gifted to the British prime minister in 1942 during the ...

Two kittens, believed to be between 7 and 9 weeks old, were photographed by a motorist in the western Upper Peninsula ...

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Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

If the landslide at the Barry Arm fjord collapses, its falling ice and rock could generate a devastating 650-foot-high tsunami ...

The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

It's a question visitors ask staff all the time at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Bird House. The answer may surprise you!

Players’ and managers’ efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike zone have long been a part of the game.