From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...

For decades, science educators have been encouraged to "stick to the science" and leave politics at the classroom door. But ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described Jack Tamisiea Museum scientists collected this frog ...

The climate of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean was far more turbulent than previously thought — and a new study suggests ...

1876, The Mygale Spider: "This 'trapdoor' creature carries its eggs enclosed in a closely woven cocoon of white silk, forming ...

There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes etched into textbooks and museum walls. Yet countless brilliant minds remain ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

There are some scientists whose contributions to the stores of human knowledge are so well-known that they have become household names. I don’t think it’s going too far out on a limb to say that ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...