While working as a porter, Alfred L. Cralle witnessed how hard it was to serve ice cream cones one-handed. He saved the day ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

Using ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners, researchers identified subterranean structures just a few feet below the ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

In recent years, the deep-sea giant isopod has also become a seafood delicacy in Vietnam, where it was discovered ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...