A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

A Maya Love for ChocolateThese paintings from the ancient Maya city of Calakmul depict ... genetic differentiation. When a plant is domesticated, people select for desirable characteristics ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

Three Spanish Muslims who rode on horseback to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia say they followed a path not traveled for more than 500 years. Abdelkader Harkassi Aidi, Tarek Rodriguez ...