Fifty years ago, on October 5, 1974, David Kunst completed the first verified circumnavigation of the globe on foot. Along ...

The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been ...

Arthur “Jack” Schubarth cloned illegally imported genetic material from the Marco Polo argali to create hybrid sheep that ...

At the site known as Oued Beht, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a large farming settlement where people used advanced ...

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership ...

In May of 1946, the United States Navy gave one of their own battleships, the USS Stewart, a burial at sea—sinking it in a ...

The massive ribbon, made in 24 colors to represent all types of cancer, measured 128 by 60 feet. In December 2014, Dubai ...

Orbiting Barnard's star, the nearest solo star to Earth, the world is too hot to be habitable—a scorching 257 degrees ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for ...

While other bears battled over fish in a prime spot, Otis would sit off to the side and wait for the fish to come to him. But ...

Though breast cancer mortality is declining overall, Asian American women and women under 50 have experienced an uptick in ...

Coffee - it's a staple of American life, and inside the vaults of the National Museum of American History, they know the ...