Pollen from 18,000 tropical plants was digitized in Panama. The images will be used to train a machine-learning model to ...

After Spanish troops seized their capital, the Lacandon Ch'ol established a new settlement called Sac Balam, or the "Land of ...

New research shows that ancient dogs did not join Indigenous people in Central and South America until farming became popular ...

The newly discovered trilobite may be hundreds of millions of years old, but its use 2,000 years ago as an amulet is the ...

A new study of the birds in online videos and at an Australian zoo revealed 17 dance moves never before documented by ...

The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that ...

A new study examines artifacts and features of the site that may be associated with Judaism, though researchers caution that ...

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum complex and research center, with collections in every area of ...

Even before faloodeh, Persians were creating frozen treats by harvesting snow from the nearby mountains and pouring grape ...

At the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, cabinets contain thousands of wood specimens, some of which ...

Pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Learn how she used aviation to ...

Pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Learn how she used aviation to champion women's independence and made history in her red Lockheed Vega 5B. A ...