A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...

Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...

A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and ...

Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Presents: “Jazz and the Armed Services” Note Location: Baird Auditorium, National ...

To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967 ...

Researchers have excavated King Arthur's Hall, a rectangular enclosure in southwest England, and determined that it dates to ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" documented the killings of a family of four in rural Kansas on this day in 1959 ...

The space agency’s chief health and medical officer refutes claims that Suni Williams, who is on the unexpectedly extended ...

After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...

Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...