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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...

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

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