"The Dream (The Bed)" will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in November. Experts say it could fetch between $40 million and ...

It’s a grand day to enjoy coffee-centric snapshots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between ...

Indigenous groups created the small beads from mollusk shells. They're the first artifacts of their kind ever found at the Colony of Avalon in Newfoundland ...

The 26th U.S. president is both lauded as a conservationist and condemned as a big-game hunter. A new book recounts the ...

A Smithsonian traveling exhibition maps the family ties and ingenuity behind lowriders—from post-World War II Chicano pride ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...

Though mirror biology might lead to improved drugs and other innovations, scientists have warned against potentially ...

The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...

The young Connecticut schoolmaster's intelligence-gathering mission was ill-fated from the start. But after he was hanged by ...