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 ...

The 34,658 ha site, between the foothills of the Tequila Volcano and the deep valley of the Rio Grande River, is part of an expansive landscape of blue agave, shaped by the culture of the plant used ...

Through a growing collection of artifacts and hands-on demonstrations, the museum is working to restore cannabis to ... Hemp, a variety of the cannabis sativa plant, is legally distinct from its ...

This open-air display of some of humanity’s oldest works is being slowly erased by industrial pollution from a nearby gas plant, according to scientific studies that have been swept up in an ...

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by the country’s original inhabitants ...