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A songwriter and an astrophysicist discuss the art and science of repetition

Water woes threaten America’s second largest reservoir—but leave new vistas in their wake

Traveling together helps the sperm navigate a tricky, sticky migration through a cow's reproductive tract

From the lab to the art gallery, the latest efforts to understand the fragrant, musky, stinky and utterly baffling world of your nose

The FDA and CDC recently recommended new boosters to target the Omicron subvariants. Here’s what you need to know about them.

Delicate fossil reveals a cousin of the modern tuatara

Elon Musk's venture has provided internet access for forces in the Ukraine and Hoh students in Washington, and the organization has a lot mo...

Before the formidable bird went extinct, scientists say it likely hunted the flightless moa

A scientist says mind-wandering or daydreaming help prepare us for the future

Prehistoric hunter gatherers carried out the surgery thousands of years before the previous recognized example

Ecologists have documented a hierarchy of fear in the South African grassland, and the king of beasts is at the top

An anthropologist traces the origins and paths of one of his favorite kinds of plants

The United States recently declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. Here’s what you need to know about the disease

Eventually the station will allow astronauts to spend up to two months on the lunar surface

The uncrewed test flight is phase one of the space agency’s historic return to the moon

In a series of in-depth features, Smithsonian magazine reports on humanity’s renewed push to understand the moon.

Analysis of a femur fossil indicates that a key species could already move somewhat like us

A Costa Rica rescue center offers blankets and bottle-feeding at a nursery for these young animals

To be sustainable, scientists say we should consume fewer animals products

Researchers have adopted innovative means, from cutting-edge scans to swimming robots, to reveal more about how the creatures lived

Friars in Cambridge, England, suffered from these parasites at nearly double the rate found among average unwashed citizens

Covid long-haulers experience a litany of symptoms, and researchers have proposed a variety of theories to explain them

Mountain lions play an important role in the Death Valley ecosystem by preying on the introduced species

The three-year-old chunk of ice had just weeks to live when it hit the cruise ship

The Ice Age left the plant off our East Coast with less genetic diversity than its relative in the Pacific