Artworks by the Latvian-American Abstract Expressionist have been damaged before, but repairs have added up to hundreds of ...

The popular salamanders are nearly extinct in the wild, where they are confined to a small system of canals in Mexico City.

After Paloma’s mother, the French painter Françoise Gilot, split with Picasso in the 1950s, she wrote a memoir about the ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

Across his video and painting work, he deploys subtle and sophisticated shifts in tone, texture and surface, showing how the ...

The Smithsonian returns with its 5th annual National Education Summit, a free three-day conference for educators preparing to ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

Created by artist Jennie C. Jones, the new exhibition features a trio of towering musical instruments made from concrete and aluminum ...

First-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote the missive shortly after settling into his cabin on the doomed vessel. It just ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...