Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...

A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...

Ethiopian wolves like to lick up the flower nectar of red hot poker plants, and researchers have caught the behavior on camera Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent Most flowering plants need ...

Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the 6.8-mile-long scar on the landscape—without anyone noticing Sarah Kuta Daily ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

The yuletide decorations are up: a trimmed tree, jolly stockings on the mantel and—wait, what’s that white-berried weed hanging from the ceiling? And why are people so amorous when they find ...

Creative circuitry and rolling robots make up this year’s top toys for teaching kids to love science, technology, engineering ...

Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...

The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history ...

Each year, millions of straw-colored fruit bats descend on Kasanka National Park for a few months, and scientists are working ...