Creator Richard O’Brien reflects on how the 1975 movie musical became a haven for the "marginalized and disenfranchised" ...
The luxury liner was requisitioned as a hospital ship during World War I. Thirty people died after the vessel struck a German ...
The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...
When a curator spotted a strikingly similar image of a dog by a lesser-known Dutch artist, she wondered if it could have ...
Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...
In the first book of Secret Smithsonian Adventures, four middle-schoolers visiting the Smithsonian's National Air and Space ...
Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved.
Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of medieval commerce and a 16th-century civic building’s foundations. Experts ...
Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...
An experimental gene therapy has slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease by 75 percent, according to results reported by the biotechnology company uniQure this week.
In his latest book, titled "Early Work," the renowned photographer revisits the bold black-and-white images he took between ...
The ranges of the two parent bird species have expanded due to climate change and now overlap around San Antonio, researchers ...