A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...

Over a decade ago, NASA launched two probes to investigate the Van Allen belts —two rings of high-energy particles that ...

Charles M. Conlon was a proofreader at the New York Telegram when he began shooting pictures as a hobby. Shown here is one of his iconic photographs of Ty Cobb sliding into third base. Charles M.

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

The bottle recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Poland National Maritime Museum in Gadansk Earlier this summer, researchers discovered a 200-year-old bottle of liquid while excavating a ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

"Pokémon Fossil Museum" in Chicago compares "fossil Pokémon" from the popular franchise to the real-world creatures they're based on ...

The patriots weaponized Jane McCrea's death to demonize their enemies and paint Indigenous people as uniquely violent ...

Around one-third of Americans take multivitamins, but researchers don't quite understand how they affect people's health. Galina Zhigalova via Getty Images Around one in three adults in the United ...

Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

It’s easy to dismiss trees as inanimate features of the landscape, but these living, breathing organisms aren’t as stoic as they appear. Trees, it turns out, make all kinds of noises as they grow and ...