"Young Lion Resting" is among dozens of Dutch Golden Age artworks from the Leiden Collection that are now on view at the ...

Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, silversmith Paul Revere took to his horse on a midnight ride to warn American ...

Invasive northern snakeheads can “walk” on land, breathe air and survive out of water for several days, and they also compete with native species in waterways ...

In 1838, the capture of Osceola, in a 19th-century portrait, attracted national attention. Smithsonian American Art Museum / Art Resource, NY “Infinity of nations,” a new permanent exhibition ...

Arriving in Hollywood brought her a new name (Lamarr was originally Kiesler), fame, multiple marriages and divorces and a foray into groundbreaking work as a producer, before she eventually became ...

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned ...