Turkey is located near two fault lines, leaving the 1,500-year-old structure vulnerable to damage. Architects and engineers will be investigating how to best preserve it

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

The newly renovated Brontë Birthplace in Bradford, England, was the three sisters' home until 1820, when the family moved to a nearby parsonage

A recent study suggests huge volumes of the molecule emerged during the cosmic dawn

Siddarth Nandyala wants to put his tool in the hands of medical professionals so that they can catch cardiovascular abnormalities in their early stages

Enjoy some northern exposure with these 15 images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

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

Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes twice in the same year

White-nose syndrome caused millions of bat deaths, and scientists are sounding the alarm that a second fungus could be disastrous if it reaches American wildlife

Noctilucent clouds usually form close to the poles, but in recent decades, they’re being spotted closer to the Equator

The anonymous street artist announced the uncharacteristically personal artwork on May 29. It's located on a wall in the French city of Marseille

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived in southern Africa

When Harrison Ruffin Tyler's grandfather was born 235 years ago in 1790, George Washington had just become the nation's first president

More than 25 years later, PBS is bringing the groundbreaking series back with a bold new vision grounded in today’s science

Between 1942 and 1943, German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the creatures reproducing in a polar region

Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the face he saw on a small granite stone

In an experiment, domestic cats spent longer sniffing cotton swabs with the scents of unfamiliar people than swabs with the scent of their owner

An exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris examines Marguerite's indelible influence on her father's evolving painting styles