While working as a porter, Alfred L. Cralle witnessed how hard it was to serve ice cream cones one-handed. He saved the day ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

The portrait of a fisherman was found in Minnesota by an anonymous collector. A new analysis has concluded that it could be ...

Experts say the case is either a rare form of asexual reproduction or an instance of (very) delayed fertilization ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...