Picking a perfect bracket is so unlikely that it will almost certainly never occur, even if March Madness continues for billions of years
'Abraham’s Oak' memorializes a pilgrimage site that the artist likely visited during his travels in the 1890's
These layered works testify to African-American history
From red to green to indigo, each color provides festival-goers with a sense of beauty, ritual and tradition
You asked, we answered
Robert Reid, then the mayor of nearby Middletown, recalls the partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor more than 40 years ago
A tin of hair conditioner in the Smithsonian collections reveals a story of the entrepreneurial and philanthropic success of a former washerwoman
Featuring titans of Texas medicine, the race was on to develop the cutting-edge technology
With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote
The ghosts of Nazis, French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors still inhabit the grand building on Paris’ famed Left Bank
An upcoming Smithsonian exhibition, “Votes For Women,” delves into the complexities and biases of the nature of persistence
As Virginia Tech's Kurt Luther perfects his facial recognition software Civil War Photo Sleuth, the discoveries keep coming
Fires can leap rapidly from building to building and even cause extreme weather events such as pyrocumulonimbus storm clouds
Police today increasingly embrace DNA tests as the ultimate crime-fighting tool. They once felt the same way about fingerprinting
We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample the splendid desolation of the emperor's exile under a scornful British governor
And why the epitome of the perfect house became so creepy
Artist Jaime Black says the REDress Project is an expression of her grief for thousands of Native victims
At Lost Spirits Distillery in Los Angeles, high-tech instruments accelerate the aging process of precious whiskeys and rums
Paleontologist Hans Sues answers your questions about dinosaurs, humans and cats in the Smithsonian's new YouTube series, "The Dr. Is In."
New evidence pushes back the date for human settlement in jungles, challenging the idea that our ancestors preferred the savannas and plains
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