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

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

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 ...

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Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a bank vault owned by the French statesman's son ...

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 ...

The findings suggest that astronomers’ widely accepted cosmology models might be missing something—meaning the longstanding mystery known as the “Hubble tension” continues ...