Brown anoles around New Orleans have the highest blood concentrations of lead ever recorded in vertebrates—and scientists ...

Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the "Philadelphia" is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian ...

Kokichi Akuzawa is an experienced climber who trained for his journey up the mountain by walking for one hour every morning ...

A new study looked at millions of recordings of birdsong and found that some species in areas with more light pollution are ...

There’s more to farm life than waking up with the rooster’s cock-a-doodle-do to milk the cows. It’s also a culture that ...

Investigators pulled a 1960s Buick sedan from the waterway in central Minnesota that provides new details about a man’s ...

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

When the new Cotoni-Coast Dairies national monument opened to the public on August 16, the 5,800-acre property officially ...

Researchers set out to investigate how streaked shearwaters take off and instead were surprised to discover that the birds ...

Mexican tetras are a most peculiar fish species. They occur in many rivers and lakes across Mexico and southern Texas, where ...

A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book from southern England's Buckland Abbey ...