Warren Harding Tried To Return America To 'Normalcy' After WWI And The 1918 Pandemic. It Failed
The lessons from his presidency show that a quick retreat to the past can be just a mirage
The lessons from his presidency show that a quick retreat to the past can be just a mirage
Amid toilet paper shortages, many Americans are making the switch — but does all the fuss about bidets really hold water?
The drug Remdesivir fights the novel coronavirus, but it also works against other viruses. Making such multipurpose medicines is a biological challenge.
Paleontologists are searching for the answer to how carnivorous dinosaurs went from pipsqueaks to titans.
What lies inside the icy cavern seems more and more like a captive, rare animal, an Earth form that might soon be lost.
The institution took decades to come to grips with the trauma of the killing of four students 50 years ago
Insects are among Earth's most abundant life forms, representing a staggering 80 percent of all animal species. But in recent years, reports of dwindling bug populations have led some experts to warn of an impending "insect apocalypse."
Paleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals.
From kitsch to cool, ride the waves of undulating popularity of a tropical fashion statement.
"Copper is truly a gift from Mother Nature in that the human race has been using it for over eight millennia."
These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic.
Fragments of a comet likely hit Earth 12,800 years ago, and a little Paleolithic village in Syria might have suffered the impact.
Past public health crises inspired innovations in infrastructure, education, fundraising and civic debate
The debate over Earth's oldest fossils fuels the search for our deepest origins.
It's been 180 years since Charles Wilkes, a founder of the Smithsonian Collection, discovered the Antarctic continent
A the U.S. stock market closed out its worst week since 2008. Amid such economic turbulence, some market researchers look to a familiar, powerful set of numbers to predict the future.
Tasked with curbing a 1907 outbreak, Esther Pohl emphasized the importance of clean, vermin-free environments
With the COVID-19 coronavirus causing a global pandemic, we look back at the scientists who figured out viruses and their relationship to disease.
In a famous 1970 teach-in demonstration, prosecutors hammered away at the nation's most powerful defendant.
In 1919, a second wave of cases of the previous year's flu lead to the sudden death of the hockey championship.