Mount Fuji’s last eruption, which happened on this day in 1707, was also its largest, spewing ash and debris over cities and ...

Because of his alleged involvement with the Ghost Dance movement, the Lakota leader, who died on this day in 1890, was seen ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political ...

Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a ...

The scales on crocodiles’ heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the ...

Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the first ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil ...

Instead of crunching mathematical calculations, GenCast was trained on four decades of historical weather data to produce an ...

To commemorate the National Day of the Horse, see herds of equine images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

After November 2024 was the second warmest November in the books, experts say the year is "effectively certain" to break the ...

Two new, preliminary papers identify a gene related to a cat’s coloration. The work also explains why tortoiseshell and ...