The world-first climate visa agreement will grant permanent residency status to 280 Tuvaluans per year as the island nation grapples with sea-level rise

Smithsonian Magazine

01.07.2025

Long-Lost Treasures Emerge From Lake During Hurricane Helene Recovery Efforts in North Carolina

Officials are draining the water from Lake Lure to remove sediment and debris, revealing historic objects embedded in the dry lakebed

Smithsonian Magazine

01.07.2025

Divorce Papers and Sauce-Stained Sleeves Reveal the Personal Side of Napoleon's Rise and Fall

More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction. The collection sheds light on the man and the myth in stunningly intimate detail

Smithsonian Magazine

01.07.2025

Rare Amber Fossils Capture 'Zombie' Fungus Infecting Insects During a Time When Dinosaurs Still Walked the Earth

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular by HBO's "The Last of Us"

Smithsonian Magazine

01.07.2025

This Young Woman With a Cone-Shaped Skull Died After Suffering a Severe Head Wound 6,000 Years Ago

Found in the Chega Sofla cemetery in Iran, the skull appears to have been struck by a blunt object. Archaeologists don't know whether the incident was intentional or accidental

Smithsonian Magazine

01.07.2025

These Killer Whales Make Tools From Kelp to Massage Each Other in a Newly Discovered Grooming Behavior

Dubbed "allokelping," it might be a unique cultural phenomenon that's as endangered as the orca population itself

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

A Sinkhole Opened Up on a Busy Street in England, Revealing the Remains of a Massive Medieval Hospital

Centuries ago, the site was home to St. Leonard's Hospital, a sprawling monastic facility that provided care to sick individuals and supplied meals for prisoners at nearby York Castle

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

Museumgoer Posing for Photo Stumbles Into Portrait of Medici Prince, Damaging the Historic Painting

The incident at the Uffizi Galleries is the latest in a series of tourist-related accidents at museums around the world. Now, the Florentine cultural institution plans to start limiting selfies

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

The Louvre Invited 100 Contemporary Artists to Copy—and Reinterpret—Its Masterpieces. Here's What They Made

The results range from faithful reproductions to complete reinventions of renowned works by artists such as Delacroix, Goya and Vermeer

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

Astronomers Detected a Mysterious Radio Burst. It Turned Out to Be From a Dead NASA Satellite

The signal detected last year came from Relay 2, a communications satellite that has been defunct since 1967

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

'Enigmatic' Dog-Sized Dinosaur Reveals a New Species That Scampered Around Jurassic North America

The speedy, plant-eating creature lived in what is now Colorado roughly 150 million years ago, and its skeleton went on display in London this week

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

Bricks From a Historic Atlantic City Church Are Getting a Second Life at the Smithsonian Castle

The First Presbyterian Church’s rare sandstone bricks will be transported to Washington, D.C., where they'll be used to restore a 170-year-old Smithsonian building on the National Mall

Smithsonian Magazine

28.06.2025

See How Marcel Duchamp Broke the Rules and Shocked the Art World Again and Again

The subversive French artist is receiving his first retrospective in the United States in more than 50 years. Decades after his death, his work is still influencing contemporary art

Smithsonian Magazine

27.06.2025

The World's Oldest Boomerang Is Even Older Than Scientists Thought, a New Analysis Suggests

Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years old

Smithsonian Magazine

27.06.2025

These Colorful Satellite Views Reveal Our Forests in Unprecedented Detail and Showcase the Potential of the New Biomass Mission

The European Space Agency’s satellite will measure trunks, branches and stems in forests to shed light on how much carbon is stored in trees across various continents

Smithsonian Magazine

27.06.2025

Mysterious Radio Pulses Found in Antarctica Seem to Defy Physics, and Researchers Are Trying to Trace Their Origins

Strange signals detected by a NASA instrument more than a decade ago have continued to confound scientists, but a new paper rules out cosmic neutrinos as a source

Smithsonian Magazine

27.06.2025

Why Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed?

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new study presents a different narrative

Smithsonian Magazine

27.06.2025

See a Vibrant, Colorful Mosaic Discovered at an Ancient Roman Settlement in France

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also boasts advanced architecture

Smithsonian Magazine

26.06.2025

Archaeologists Say They've Pieced Together the Ancient Fragments of the 'World's Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle'

More than 1,800 years ago, the thousands of pieces formed colorful frescoes that covered the walls of a luxurious villa in Londinium, the precursor to modern-day London

Smithsonian Magazine

26.06.2025

Ancient DNA Reveals Mysterious New Group of Humans in Colombia With No Genetic Ties to People Today

The previously undocumented lineage of hunter-gatherers seems to have disappeared around 2,000 years ago

Smithsonian Magazine

26.06.2025

Diane Arbus' Largest-Ever Retrospective Features Photographs of Society's Celebrated and Marginalized Figures

With 454 images arranged with as little order as possible, viewers are encouraged to wander and make their own observations—much like Arbus did on the streets of New York

Smithsonian Magazine

26.06.2025

These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs—and Their Descendants Are Still Alive Today

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, a new study suggests

Smithsonian Magazine

26.06.2025

See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman's Civil War Triumphs

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved laborers, is now the subject of an exhibition in Charleston

Smithsonian Magazine

26.06.2025

See the Face of a 10,500-Year-Old Woman, Reconstructed by Archaeologists and Artists

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley during the Mesolithic period

Smithsonian Magazine

25.06.2025

See the First Breathtaking Images Captured by the Powerful New Telescope at the Rubin Observatory

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey

Smithsonian Magazine

25.06.2025

Iconic 'Dragon Man' Skull Offers First Glimpse of What a Denisovan's Face Looked Like, New Genetic Studies Suggest

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins

Smithsonian Magazine

25.06.2025

Climate Activist Throws Bright Pink Paint on Glass Covering Picasso Painting in Montreal

The stunt is part of an environmental organization's efforts to draw attention to the dangerous wildfires spreading through Canada

Smithsonian Magazine

25.06.2025

Doctors Detected a Mysterious Antibody in a French Woman's Body. It Turned Out to Be a Brand New Blood Type

Called "Gwada negative," it marks the discovery of the 48th known blood group system in humans

Smithsonian Magazine

25.06.2025

The 2,000-Year-Old 'Perfume Garden' in the Ancient City of Pompeii Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory

The small garden now features thousands of roses, violets, cherry trees and vines. Experts think a perfumer may have once used the plants to experiment with new scents

Smithsonian Magazine

25.06.2025

This London Museum Lets You 'Order' Objects From Its Vast Collections—and Maybe Even Touch Them

At the new V&A East Storehouse, visitors can get up close and personal with 250,000 historic and culturally significant items spanning 5,000 years of human creativity

Smithsonian Magazine

25.06.2025

In South Africa, a Smart Gate Could Help Connect Elephants' Fragmented Habitat

An unlikely quartet’s clever contraption may allow the pachyderms to make better use of their range

Smithsonian Magazine

24.06.2025

Over 600 Years, the Golf Ball Has Evolved From a Primitive Wood Sphere to a Smart Ball With Cutting-Edge Sensors

Tracing the centuries of innovation that sent the golf ball on a wild ride through history

Smithsonian Magazine

24.06.2025

This Rare, 6,000-Year-Old Limestone Fertility Figurine Could Be Poland's Archaeological 'Find of the Century'

Dating back to the Neolithic era, the so-called Venus of Kolobrzeg is the first artifact of its kind unearthed in the European country

Smithsonian Magazine

24.06.2025

These Gold Coins May Solve the Mystery of the 'World's Richest Shipwreck,' Confirming Its Identity as a Legendary 18th-Century Galleon

Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the Colombian coast in 1708 with treasure worth billions on board

Smithsonian Magazine

24.06.2025

Archaeologists Unearth Artifacts From One of the Nation's Oldest Schools for Black Children

News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and enslaved Black children between 1760 and 1774

Smithsonian Magazine

24.06.2025

Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of miles, according to new research

Smithsonian Magazine

24.06.2025

Stunning New Image of the Sculptor Galaxy Captures the Cosmic Landscape in Thousands of Colors

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way

Smithsonian Magazine

24.06.2025

This Medieval Sword Pulled From a Dutch Riverbed Is Marked With Intricate Copper Symbols

The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a private estate near the city of Montfoort

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Need to Solve a Problem? Try Taking a Deep Power Nap for an 'Aha' Moment, Research Suggests

More Than One-Third of Tuvalu's Population Has Applied for a 'Climate Visa' to Relocate to Australia

Long-Lost Treasures Emerge From Lake During Hurricane Helene Recovery Efforts in North Carolina

Divorce Papers and Sauce-Stained Sleeves Reveal the Personal Side of Napoleon's Rise and Fall

Rare Amber Fossils Capture 'Zombie' Fungus Infecting Insects During a Time When Dinosaurs Still Walked the Earth

This Young Woman With a Cone-Shaped Skull Died After Suffering a Severe Head Wound 6,000 Years Ago

These Killer Whales Make Tools From Kelp to Massage Each Other in a Newly Discovered Grooming Behavior

A Sinkhole Opened Up on a Busy Street in England, Revealing the Remains of a Massive Medieval Hospital

Museumgoer Posing for Photo Stumbles Into Portrait of Medici Prince, Damaging the Historic Painting

The Louvre Invited 100 Contemporary Artists to Copy—and Reinterpret—Its Masterpieces. Here's What They Made

Astronomers Detected a Mysterious Radio Burst. It Turned Out to Be From a Dead NASA Satellite

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet

'Enigmatic' Dog-Sized Dinosaur Reveals a New Species That Scampered Around Jurassic North America

Bricks From a Historic Atlantic City Church Are Getting a Second Life at the Smithsonian Castle

See How Marcel Duchamp Broke the Rules and Shocked the Art World Again and Again

The World's Oldest Boomerang Is Even Older Than Scientists Thought, a New Analysis Suggests

These Colorful Satellite Views Reveal Our Forests in Unprecedented Detail and Showcase the Potential of the New Biomass Mission

Mysterious Radio Pulses Found in Antarctica Seem to Defy Physics, and Researchers Are Trying to Trace Their Origins

Why Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed?

See a Vibrant, Colorful Mosaic Discovered at an Ancient Roman Settlement in France

Archaeologists Say They've Pieced Together the Ancient Fragments of the 'World's Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle'

Ancient DNA Reveals Mysterious New Group of Humans in Colombia With No Genetic Ties to People Today

Diane Arbus' Largest-Ever Retrospective Features Photographs of Society's Celebrated and Marginalized Figures

These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs—and Their Descendants Are Still Alive Today

See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman's Civil War Triumphs

See the Face of a 10,500-Year-Old Woman, Reconstructed by Archaeologists and Artists

See the First Breathtaking Images Captured by the Powerful New Telescope at the Rubin Observatory

Iconic 'Dragon Man' Skull Offers First Glimpse of What a Denisovan's Face Looked Like, New Genetic Studies Suggest

Climate Activist Throws Bright Pink Paint on Glass Covering Picasso Painting in Montreal

Doctors Detected a Mysterious Antibody in a French Woman's Body. It Turned Out to Be a Brand New Blood Type

The 2,000-Year-Old 'Perfume Garden' in the Ancient City of Pompeii Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory

This London Museum Lets You 'Order' Objects From Its Vast Collections—and Maybe Even Touch Them

In South Africa, a Smart Gate Could Help Connect Elephants' Fragmented Habitat

Over 600 Years, the Golf Ball Has Evolved From a Primitive Wood Sphere to a Smart Ball With Cutting-Edge Sensors

This Rare, 6,000-Year-Old Limestone Fertility Figurine Could Be Poland's Archaeological 'Find of the Century'

These Gold Coins May Solve the Mystery of the 'World's Richest Shipwreck,' Confirming Its Identity as a Legendary 18th-Century Galleon

Archaeologists Unearth Artifacts From One of the Nation's Oldest Schools for Black Children

Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower

Stunning New Image of the Sculptor Galaxy Captures the Cosmic Landscape in Thousands of Colors

This Medieval Sword Pulled From a Dutch Riverbed Is Marked With Intricate Copper Symbols

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