Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...

A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" documented the killings of a family of four in rural Kansas on this day in 1959 ...

Researchers have excavated King Arthur's Hall, a rectangular enclosure in southwest England, and determined that it dates to ...

A maximum of 20,000 people will be allowed to enter each day in an effort to protect the historic site in Italy, where ...

The space agency’s chief health and medical officer refutes claims that Suni Williams, who is on the unexpectedly extended ...

Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...

A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and ...

After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...

The third largest U.S. state, California is No. 1 when it comes to giant redwood and sequoia trees, the Pacific Ocean and ...