Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...
Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on ...
Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...
In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of the same species broke out of a South Carolina research facility ...
A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...
Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the ...
Revealed by a German fossil, the newly described species sheds light on questions that scientists have been puzzling over for ...
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A new paper reveals how Aboriginal people changed the landscape by burning, demonstrating how similar practices could help ...
Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...
Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...
The term's popularity skyrocketed after content creator Jools Lebron used it in a now-viral TikTok video, in which she ...