The public tours of the historic residence hadn't been overhauled in decades. For two years, the first lady's office has been ...

Pedestrians in Montreal, Grand Rapids and other locations can time-travel thanks to installations that map historical scenes ...

Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the ...

A new exhibition spotlights the Spanish artist's printmaking talents, which he began honing in his 20s. In the decades that ...

The team was analyzing the structure of a royal palace’s gate when they discovered 12 statues made out of sandstone ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show how communities in Mexico and beyond mark Día de los Muertos.

Texts like the "Sortes Astrampsychi" promised insights on clients' love lives, career prospects, financial woes and families ...

The deep penetrations suggest that the feline was pressing its claws into the clay, a behavior sometimes known as "making ...

The fragile 18th-century containers, which likely held alcoholic beverages that were shared among passengers and crew members ...

A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...

The oldest recorded fossils of adult frogs date back to around 217 million years ago, in the Late Triassic Period, but the ...

Introduced in 1934, the federal duck stamp contest has raised more than $1.2 billion and protected at least 6.5 million acres ...