At an exhibition in England, curators have placed artworks alongside diffusers that dispense carefully crafted fragrances, ...
Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on ...
Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...
In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of the same species broke out of a South Carolina research facility ...
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Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the ...
By Cushman’s account, however, Chépart was “the last to receive his just reward.” Though he fled to his garden, “he was found ...
Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...
Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...