An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...
Venomous Snakes Represent a Serious Public Health Problem. Scientists Are Biting Back With a Grou...
Snakes bite five million people each year, killing some 125,000 and disfiguring or blinding three times as many. Antivenoms ...
Researchers around the world are attempting to create a safer and more effective treatment in hopes of saving hundreds of thousands of lives ...
The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...
Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...
Currently, one of those now-defunct spacecraft might be plummeting toward the planet’s surface. Days ago, the U.S. Space ...
Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...
Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...
"Pokémon Fossil Museum" in Chicago compares "fossil Pokémon" from the popular franchise to the real-world creatures they're based on ...
Known as samphire, sea beans, glasswort or pickleweed, Salicornia thrives in high-saline environments, like coastal marshes, ...
It’s easy to dismiss trees as inanimate features of the landscape, but these living, breathing organisms aren’t as stoic as they appear. Trees, it turns out, make all kinds of noises as they grow and ...
After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...
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