In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as ...

Smithsonian's own jazz man, John Edward Hasse, gives a lesson on the influential music genre. Read more at: ...

A groundbreaking new study from Cyprus reveals that pigeons were living alongside humans and moving toward domestication nearly 3,400 years ago. This discovery pushes back the earliest direct evidence ...

To mark the anniversary, our series America In Pursuit has been exploring culture, history and objects from American life. Here's NPR's Jennifer Ludden with another of those objects. JENNIFER LUDDEN, ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

Nearly 90 years after the film premiered and over 120 years since the novel was published, this great American fairytale is a ...

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...

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The worry is that he’s not a vertical athlete and the foundation of all that production — overpowering smaller defenders — ...

Here’s my final mock ahead of the NBA Draft Lottery on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, ABC), when the final draft order will be determined ...

The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) was created in the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Section 1752 of Public Law 116-283; 6 U.S.C. § ...

Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...