President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among ...

Ivan Kashinsky has traveled the world for Smithsonian magazine, but when disaster struck earlier this month, he rushed home ...

It’s long been rumored that a network of old, underground tunnels lies beneath Cusco, Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan ...

Based in Los Angeles, Ivan Kashinsky is a documentary photographer who has worked extensively in Latin America. He has worked ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

Scientists suggest captive chimpanzees engage in 'socially contagious urination'—that is, when one primate starts peeing, others quickly follow suit ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The National ...

Excavations in Norway revealed a rich variety of artifacts, including jewelry, textile tools and stones positioned in the shape of a ship Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Researchers think there may ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

The space rock—recorded with visuals and sound—landed where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...