The little bit of growing room Eulea Knowles Kiraly set out to put between herself and her small hometown when she left for college grew to 9,000 miles, covering a meandering path through theater, ...

An Apple engineer quit her job and couldn't get hired after several months, becoming homeless. She shares how school helped her start over and heal.

The little bit of growing room Eulea Knowles Kiraly set out to put between herself and her small hometown when she left for ...

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 ...

An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Since 2000, there have always been humans living and working on the International Space Station—and the streak could just be getting started. Hovering over Earth and its thin blue atmosphere, the ...

Science writer David Berreby shares his personal journey with griefbots and discusses how they can offer unexpected comfort, insight and connection in the wake of loss. Kendra Pierre-Louis steps in as ...