The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost. Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the ...

The scales on crocodiles’ heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the ...

To commemorate the National Day of the Horse, see herds of equine images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the first ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger ...

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil ...

Following the murder in 44 B.C.E., Brutus minted the gold aureus to promote his own image and celebrate his military ...

Biologists say mating, climate change or simply being confused might have driven the creature to swim great distances, ...