Pet owners often pick "designer dogs" because they think they’ll be easier to train and friendlier with kids than purebreds. A new study suggests that's not always the case ...

Found in a Polish forest, the town of Stolzenberg appears to have been built around the turn of the 14th century. Surveys ...

Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water ...

More than a century ago, the massive mammals actually grazed beside the Smithsonian Castle. As of today, two large sculptures continue that legacy as they flank the museum’s main entrance ...

See some darling—and some dangerous—animals in images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

Archaeologists were puzzled when they found parrot feathers in a pre-Inca burial in coastal Peru. A new study suggests that the birds were captured in the wild and kept alive over lengthy journeys ...

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

Sound-based deterrents could help keep the animals away from fast-moving cars and dangerous landscaping equipment ...

Crowds once mingled below two tall arcades supported by 164-foot-tall columns. But due to earthquakes and unstable foundations, these architectural elements collapsed long ago ...

One of the two participants wrote words up to a speed similar to an able-bodied person texting on a smartphone ...

Constable was born in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt on June 11, 1776. With “Constable 250,” nearby Ipswich honors the pastoral painter’s connections to his homeland, community, country and cont ...

The cellar is located near the 13th hole of a course at the Davyhulme Park Golf Club in England. Staffers think it was previously part of a manor that was torn down in 1888 ...