More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Lamb and Smit approach with their gear and check vitals, then begin measuring, sampling and hoisting the grizzly’s ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

The Haenyeo, a group of skilled divers on Jeju Island, plunge beneath the ocean’s surface without any breathing equipment, ...

In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

A journey to the remote Indian Ocean island reveals the story behind the fragrant, delicious, ubiquitous spice—and the ...

These seafaring shots are harbored in the archives of the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest You don’t have to love water or ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

The systems have been especially successful in Latin America, where massive cities and dramatic landscapes make building roads, rail lines and subway tunnels difficult. Mi Teléferico, shown here ...

The tiny Carnarvon flapjack octopus is the latest of ten species described by Australian scientists after a 2022 research ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...