For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have educated Black Americans. Now, a new exhibition highlights special objects from five ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal as the first-prize winner of the ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston features paintings by Kahlo, works by artists she inspired and consumer ...

Icicles form on a fence and reflect the blue sky after an ice storm. Alexandra Lennox, Canada, 2021. As snow melts and drips ...

Officials have proposed building a mini-Sphere in Maryland's National Harbor. One-third the size of the original, the ...

Life around the world has been feeling the effects of climate change, land degradation, deforestation, pollution and the ...

The seventh edition of the triennial Outwin Boochever contest showcases contemporary artists’ novel approaches to their subjects ...

Researchers found an association between increased activity in a reward region of the brain—primarily stimulated by hopeful thinking—and heightened levels of protective antibodies after receiving a va ...

The dynamic nature of the world means that anything can become an artifact, and the professionals put themselves in position ...

With up to six fingers that can bend in multiple directions, the innovative tool could one day be used to carry out tasks in tight spaces ...