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Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the "Philadelphia" is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian ...

Brown anoles around New Orleans have the highest blood concentrations of lead ever recorded in vertebrates—and scientists ...

The colorful artwork decorates the frigidarium of the Villa Romana del Casale, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Sicily ...

There’s more to farm life than waking up with the rooster’s cock-a-doodle-do to milk the cows. It’s also a culture that ...

The creatures, which ranged in size from that of a fox to more than 50 feet long, divided their time between the coast and ...

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods ...

When the new Cotoni-Coast Dairies national monument opened to the public on August 16, the 5,800-acre property officially ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

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Mexican tetras are a most peculiar fish species. They occur in many rivers and lakes across Mexico and southern Texas, where ...

Hundreds of humanoids from 16 countries stumbled over each other while competing in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing ...