According to an announcement, the new venue will be the world’s first museum dedicated to barbecue. The museum is being ...

A Wednesday necropsy, led by Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries scientist Greg Skomal, found no signs of the shark ...

New research traces the genetic underpinnings of the enzyme amylase, which helps humans digest starches and sugars ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known Christian church in Armenia. Shaped like an octagon with cross-shaped ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Created from more than 25,000 high-resolution images, the digital model shows artifacts from the ill-fated expedition, ...

Many countries use weather balloons to gather high-altitude data on air temperature, pressure and humidity. Before the ...

Could a private citizen get hold of a genome and use it to bring an extinct animal back to life? —Anjali Rawal | Encinitas, ...

Hundreds of artifacts have been unearthed at a burial mound in the city of Chifeng, but researchers are particularly ...

Identified as an Arctic fox, the animal is believed to have been kept in captivity far from its native habitat in the tundra.

A bird making a nest. Taryn Elliott The nests and eggs of birds have fascinated us for hundreds of years. At its simplest the ...

The Smithsonian partners with NASA to present the Earth Information Center, a larger-than-life display that visualizes ...