Writing lets us trace language back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology ...

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did this have on their brains and behaviour?

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

Witness the echoes of human history unfold at the much-anticipated solo art exhibition, "Reverberations of the Past," curated by Ruchi Atreya. This unique showcase will take place at the prestigious ...

Ameya Okamoto, Santana Walker, and Celeste Hampton—part of the Smithsonian's Nail Art Project. Photos courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution When Indigenous entrepreneur and aesthetic innovator ...