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An intriguing study involving puppet shows suggests that infants dislike those who are different from themselves
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Neanderthal brains had more capacity devoted to vision and body control, with less left over for social interactions and complex cognition
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An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
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For Women's History month, curator David C. Ward considers the steady ascendency of poets from Emily Dickinson to today's Eavan Boland
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The spectacular aurora borealis is inspiring artists to create light installations, musical compositions, food and fashion
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Coconut oil is healthy. It smells and tastes like sweet tropical butter. Yet almost nobody in Ecuador uses it
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Your publicly available "likes" can tell others a lot you wouldn't expect—including your political views, sexual orientation and religion
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Warner Brothers added to its collection of donated items with more than 30 new items to the American History Museum
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Meet the scientist behind the Mars rover, learn the civil war's influence on contemporary art and watch films by European media collective Flatland
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The Cyrus Cylinder makes its U.S. debut on March 9. It is considered one of the most important archaeological artifacts in history.
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The smog-filled valley recently hosted NASA planes that tested air quality to help calibrate future satellite efforts to measure air pollution
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40 bucks in cash, a warm sleeping bag and plenty of wine carry the author through his final days in Ecuador, in the remote high country outside of Quito
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In 1820, one of Britain's most notorious criminals hatched a plan to rescue the emperor from exile on the Atlantic isle of St Helena -- but did he try it?
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Smithsonian scientists investigate a sudden warming of the Earth 55 million years ago to understand how climate change will affect future ecosystems
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More and more scientific research is showing that sleep is more important to our state of mind--and body--than we ever could have imagined
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Deep channels, buried under lava but now mapped with satellite data, give hints to the planet's violent, wet and recent past
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The drug, naturally present in coffee and citrus plant nectars, is shown to improve honeybees' long-term memory
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Douglas discusses her recent donation of her leotard and other items from the 2012 London Olympics
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It wasn't a military expert or an aviation pioneer, but a Russian actor who developed the first viable parachute
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From a caterpillar to the Milky Way, the ten finalists in the contest's Natural World category capture the peculiar, the remarkable and the sublime
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