Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

On a journey to six cities across the country over the course of seven years, a photographer captured images of the roads ...

On the evening of January 17, 1950, thieves entered the building of the Brink’s security company in Boston’s North End. They ...

The space rock—recorded with visuals and sound—landed where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

A team trekked for two weeks and collected the sounds of birds, frogs, a jaguar and whales in order to make the song ...

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, ...

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and ...

Leah L. Jones is lead photographer at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Johnson was sworn in by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes on Air Force One, just hours after President John F.

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...