While most wooden artifacts disintegrate after thousands of years, the newly unearthed oak tool has remained in remarkable ...

Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect commonly smuggled items, including rhino horns and elephant tusks Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Poachers and wildlife traffickers go to great ...

Pedestrians in Montreal, Grand Rapids and other locations can time-travel thanks to installations that map historical scenes ...

A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...

By inoculating greenhouse na’u seedlings with mycorrhizal fungi, researchers hope to boost survival odds when the plants are ...

The deep penetrations suggest that the feline was pressing its claws into the clay, a behavior sometimes known as "making ...

The team was analyzing the structure of a royal palace’s gate when they discovered 12 statues made out of sandstone ...

The public tours of the historic residence hadn't been overhauled in decades. For two years, the first lady's office has been ...

A blockbuster exhibition in Paris is showcasing 500 artifacts and artworks in honor of the Surrealist Manifesto, which ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show how communities in Mexico and beyond mark Día de los Muertos.

"Spectropia" demystified the techniques used by mediums who claimed they could speak to the dead, revealing the "absurd follies of Spiritualism" ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...