The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...
Dmitry Kokh The weather is getting colder and the snow is falling, so cozy up with a hot drink and enjoy this sample of ...
These small but mighty pups have roots on family farms in Denmark and Sweden, where they helped catch rodents, herd livestock, hunt and watch over the property ...
Geomorphologist and veteran climber Ludovic Ravanel is learning how Mont Blanc is shifting—and sharing his discoveries with the Alpine community ...
Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...
The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be ...
Ella Jeffries is an editorial intern with Smithsonian magazine. The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be mild, health e ...
Experts on the hunt for the queen's tomb believe that they’ve found a small bust of her—but not everyone agrees ...
A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...
The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...
Several inches of snowfall kept the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute closed to visitors this week. But the animals and their caretakers still had a good time!
During World War II, the crew of the Zaida were among the everyday Americans who risked their lives watching out for enemy ...