The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

A new project called Digital Delacroix is training cutting-edge technology on the French painter's style to unravel the lost ...

The black and slightly orange Bigg’s killer whale was spotted swimming with its mother, Sedna, in the Salish Sea ...

Ziv Nitzan was on a hike with her family when a rock on the ground caught her eye. But when the 3-year-old girl picked up the small stone and cleaned it off, she realized it was no ordinary rock.

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

The story of this living monument begins with Charles Weeghman, a classic Chicago striver who could have stepped out of the ...

The January issue featured a story about the village in Sardinia where my paternal grandfather was born (“ Rites of Winter ,” ...

Developed by a physicist, these bats have their widest part, called the barrel, closer to the player's hands to offer a ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Ohan Breiding's "Belly of a Glacier" combines experimental film and photography to reflect on a moment of loss—and to fight ...

The system harnesses technology similar to that of devices like Alexa and Siri, according to the researchers, and improves on ...