When it was completed in 1930, the 1,046-foot building was briefly the tallest in the world. In recent years, it's fallen ...

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Created for the tenth anniversary of the Doors frontman's death in 1971, the bust stood on his grave in the famous Père ...

Siddarth Nandyala wants to put his tool in the hands of medical professionals so that they can catch cardiovascular ...

Turkey is located near two fault lines, leaving the 1,500-year-old structure vulnerable to damage. Architects and engineers ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Scientists previously assumed the giant, prehistoric sharks mostly feasted on whales, but it turns out they probably weren’t ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

Fragments of the bucket were first found at England's Sutton Hoo burial site in 1986. New research has revealed that the ...

The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation ...

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the ...