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

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

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

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

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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 ...

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

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

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

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...