At least some of the barrels contain caustic alkaline waste, which has made the surrounding ecosystems inhospitable to most life forms, a new study suggests ...

After analyzing bone fragments found in millennia-old trash piles, researchers say that people may have brought livestock ...

For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” “Gokstad” and “Tune”—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine the sample more closely to know for sure ...

See images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest and find out for yourself why Spain is so special. Donny Bajohr is the ...

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, researchers non-invasively and precisely directed ultrasound beams to target a location ...

Discover how the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum’s 2025 interns explored women’s history through hands-on ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

The Vatican has opened a new ecological training center aimed at inspiring other countries to take action to address climate ...

Located off the coast of northern Italy, "Christ of the Abyss" was installed in 1954 to commemorate lives lost at sea. The ...