The last time a President deployed the National Guard to a state over the objections of the governor was in 1965, when LBJ sent them to protect Civil Rights marchers in Selma in defiance of Alabama ...

Created to coincide with the rebranding, items in the "Cabinet of Curiosities" reflect some of the ideas the museum's new name wants to emphasize.

Water From Your Eyes' Nate Amos and Rachel Brown just made the perfect album for the surreal summer of 2025. They talk about it in our new interview.

Ancient cave art may have depicted an extinct creature 250 million years before paleontologists even knew it existed.

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves.

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

Jennifer Allen’s most recent book is “Mālama Honua: Hōkūle‘a - A Voyage of Hope.” ...

So, uh. You may have heard. The termination date for the Rivers of America and all of its charming attractions has been set ...

In 1827, naturalist John Audubon announced a massive discovery: the largest North American eagle. But did the Washington sea ...