The anonymous street artist announced the uncharacteristically personal artwork on May 29. It's located on a wall in the ...

Siddarth Nandyala wants to put his tool in the hands of medical professionals so that they can catch cardiovascular ...

When it was completed in 1930, the 1,046-foot building was briefly the tallest in the world. In recent years, it's fallen ...

Created for the tenth anniversary of the Doors frontman's death in 1971, the bust stood on his grave in the famous Père ...

When Harrison Ruffin Tyler's grandfather was born 235 years ago in 1790, George Washington had just become the nation's first ...

What does it mean to be picture perfect? Just take a hike along the tundra regions of Western Canada, and the significance of ...

Noctilucent clouds usually form close to the poles, but in recent decades, they’re being spotted closer to the Equator ...

White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes ...

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the ...

Two bars that Hershey's devised for the U.S. military: Ration D, and the tastier (and more enduring) Tropical Chocolate Bar, which soldiers received as late as 1991. Yasu Mizoi When Captain Paul ...