While working as a porter, Alfred L. Cralle witnessed how hard it was to serve ice cream cones one-handed. He saved the day ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

The nearly 5.5-hour feat set a record for astronaut Sunita Williams, who became the woman with the most time spent on ...

Using ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners, researchers identified subterranean structures just a few feet below the ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

Experts say the case is either a rare form of asexual reproduction or an instance of (very) delayed fertilization ...

The papers connected to author A.A. Milne—including original drafts, illustrations, letters, poems and corrected proofs—sold ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...