For all of the art that is consumed by everybody, everywhere, every day, it’s a shame that art is often undervalued” ...

Through 45 artworks made between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new exhibition spotlights the Norwegian artist's sometimes ...

As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

An expert on the impacts of information technologies on society considers how talking machines got their male- and female-sounding voices ...

Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...

After the ballpark sent a crew of "geesekeepers" to protect her over the weekend, the bird appears to have moved on. But she ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool—were dated to as far back ...

Lillian Ali is an editorial intern with Smithsonian magazine. The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a ...

Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble ...

One version, Barrow Tarot, was created by Katie Anderson as a “conversational artwork” to encourage residents of Barrow, ...