A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

The black-bulb yam excels at mimicry, producing small clones of itself that look like the dark, shiny berries of seed-growing ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever ...

The new space will feature artworks by the likes of Alberto Giacometti, Louise Bourgeois and Alexander Calder. Officials say ...

Archaeologists think the newly discovered artifacts remained at the production site because they were deemed unusable. Large ...

A fresh analysis of a fossil found almost 50 years ago reveals a newly described genus named for its "manipulating claw" ...

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to ...

Other rare items, available for purchase in February, include illustrations, theater programs, telegrams and newspapers ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

Dwight Hal Johnson received the nation's highest military honor in 1968. Three years later, he was killed during an attempted ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...