He arrives at the non-profit that produces 'Sesame Street' as it seeks a new home for the long-running children’s series ...

“Swords like this are very special,” Duncan Sayer of the University of Central Lancashire, the site’s lead archaeologist, tells Smithsonian magazine. “It looks like the man it was buried ...

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Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini, or ...

Using magnetotellurics, researchers produced a detailed picture of the magma beneath Yellowstone, offering insights into a distant future of possible volcanic activity Sarah Kuta Daily ...

Ella Jeffries is an editorial intern with Smithsonian magazine. The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be mild, health e ...

More than 1,800 animals reside at the Smithsonian's 163-acre National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, from Asian elephants to cheetahs to sea lions. Look up every now and then as you stroll ...

The digital jukebox enjoyed a two-decade reign as the dominant program for storing audio files Sonja Anderson Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in ...

In the past, the names could only be viewed in person. But due to expiring access restrictions, they're now available to anyone with an internet connection Sarah Kuta These small but mighty pups ...

Cast your vote for your favorite of the photographs, which are all contenders for the People’s Choice award, through January 29 Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a Soviet submarine base, according to a new study Eli Wizevich Using Arctic ...

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to California How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining ...