A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization.

Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao officially greeted the public for the first time at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C.

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...

Nestled in the southwest corner of the Iowa’s portion of the unglaciated Driftless Area, the countryside around Oelwein is ...

The discovery of apparently classified records can set off alarm bells. But often, the federal government rules that the ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

DC! Welcome back from the long weekend. This week, you can meet the Smithsonian National Zoo’s precious new pandas, or play a ...

Innovation and invention can be found in the most unlikely of places, and that is precisely what a traveling Smithsonian exhibit hopes to get across during its stay in Building 20 of Legacy Plaza in ...

At “The Museum of Bad Gifts,” a weeklong installation at Toronto’s Northern Contemporary Gallery, doomed presents are mounted on the wall like pieces of fine art for visitors to puzzle over.

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"Our new method can be applied to other populations across the world and hopefully reveal more missing pieces of the puzzle ... in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss.