The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...

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Creator Richard O’Brien reflects on how the 1975 movie musical became a haven for the "marginalized and disenfranchised" ...

A team of archaeologists at the University of Cádiz discovered the more than 5,000-year-old structure, known as a dolmen, ...

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...

When a curator spotted a strikingly similar image of a dog by a lesser-known Dutch artist, she wondered if it could have ...

In the first book of Secret Smithsonian Adventures, four middle-schoolers visiting the Smithsonian's National Air and Space ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

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 ...

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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.