An enigmatic boundary in Indonesia creates a striking divide in wildlife, separating Asia's tigers and elephants from Australia's kangaroos and cockatoos. This invisible line, known as the Wallace ...

There’s a beach in India where the sea doesn’t stay put. One moment, waves kiss the shore and the next? They slowly vanish, ...

Five years after the start of the pandemic, a group of researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is one step ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

Nature is endowed with many mysterious and beautiful phenomena, where every parent animal rears their young, and provides for ...

Getting off a plane in the US the other day, I noticed a lot of people waiting at the plane door. They were all tabarded ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed an unexpected mix of sugars, sticky 'gum-like' material and ancient stardust. Scientists say the discovery could reshape what we know about the early Solar System an ...

The mysterious return of 3I/ATLAS has reignited global attention as discreet planetary defence drills quietly take place ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...