The prolific American actor, who died on September 9, recorded his dialogue for the first "Star Wars" film in less than three ...

For the first time, scientists witnessed Japanese eels free themselves from the stomach of a predatory fish in X-ray video ...

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New research suggests that the Romans defeated the Jewish rebels at Masada much more quickly than scholars previously assumed ...

Archaeologists discovered a trove of rare silver coins on a small, remote island in the Mediterranean, Sicilian officials ...

These selections from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images capture this South American paradise ...

Alexa Robles-Gil is a bilingual science journalist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Undark, ...

Quartz, which can generate electricity, attracts large chunks of gold when stressed and squeezed by seismic shaking, ...

The gold and carnelian artifact is nearly identical to other jewelry found at an archaeological site in western Turkey ...

From Alaska to Peru and the Himalayas, glacial lakes are suddenly breaking free and causing deaths and millions of dollars in damages ...