The term refers to "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state" that's linked to spending ...
While Neanderthals have been found to create glue-like substances with other materials, this finding, if confirmed, would be ...
At an exhibition in England, curators have placed artworks alongside diffusers that dispense carefully crafted fragrances, ...
In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of ...
Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on ...
Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...
Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...
A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...
Joseph Stromberg was previously a digital reporter for Smithsonian. A new study indicates the small monkeys may help us ...
Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea Tim Gallagher Two ivory-billed woodpeckers in one of the historic photographs that ...
Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...
The yuletide decorations are up: a trimmed tree, jolly stockings on the mantel and—wait, what’s that white-berried weed hanging from the ceiling? And why are people so amorous when they find ...