To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce.

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Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...

The excavation, which followed the discovery of two Roman swords in 2023, is providing historians with fresh insights into ...

Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago's western islands are experiencing "reverse evolution" and reverting ...

Erin Wunderlich. Erin Wunderlich is a science writing intern at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She covers natural history research and collections news for ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

Glaciers in Chile’s Patagonia region have been melting in recent years, exposing fossils underneath. Judith Pardo-Pérez, a ...

With nearly six months left in the year, the total number of cases so far in 2025 has surpassed every year since 1992 ...

Each year in the first weeks of June, Indigenous communities in the Andes form a human chain to corral the camelids and shear ...