The torch relay was the brainchild of Carl Diem, the primary organizer of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, who imagined a ...

Copenhagen’s 400-year-old Stock Exchange partially collapsed in a blazing fire on Tuesday. As sirens blared and smoke ...

Grassroots exhibitions popping up in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland provide a window into ordinary lives ...

Ornithologists and conservationists say humans can take key steps to make urban environments less hazardous for our avian ...

The impacted reefs represent 54 percent of the planet's total, and that figure is currently increasing by 1 percent each week ...

Thanks to its new taxonomic designation, the Smithsonian’s Allosaurus skeleton joins the roughly 139,000 type specimens in ...

The medical condition is named after a fictional storyteller who in turn was based on a real-life German nobleman known for ...

Lobster Telephone (1938) by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí is exactly what it sounds like: a plaster sculpture of a lobster ...

Bumblebees may be more resilient than previously thought: Hibernating queen bees can survive for up to a week underwater, ...

The babies were born on March 21, just six months after their parents were first introduced. (Kara Ingraham / Smithsonian’s ...

A visit to the National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall, whether in-person or online, offers connections for ...

Called Gaia BH3, the dormant black hole is 33 times more massive than the sun, making it the largest recorded stellar black hole in the Milky Way ...