Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Museum of Contemporary American Teenager is teaming up with American University to bring ...

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Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features ...

Ding and her colleagues captured video footage of the nematode towers in fallen apples and pears in orchards in Konstanz, Germany. They describe their discovery in a study published Thursday in the ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

Nearly 450 objects are heading to auction this month. The collection reveals the "Twin Peaks" director's restless creativity ...

Learn how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin sparked national debate and changed how many Americans understood ...

Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better ...

How does art help us envision the future? Registration is open for Extended Bloom , an interactive performance by artist ...