Boston Public Library unveiled its year-end wrap-up lists on Monday morning, including the top 10 checked out books of 2025.

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Mike Johnson scrambles to pass Pentagon bill as GOP ranks seethe Cher Scores Near-Complete Victory in Royalties War, Mary Bono Vows Appeal A US aircraft carrier's hard turn to avoid enemy fire ...

Video of the sea bunny—taken last year—has gone viral on the internet this week. Watch as they (very) slowly make their way across the seafloor. Say hello to this week's Internet overlord, the ...

Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in its waters and felt that time stood still, that the noise and chatter of the world faded away to a ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...

Clashes between the China Coast Guard and the Philippine Navy escalated in June. Philippine officials announced late last month that Chinese personnel attacked dinghies attempting to provision ...

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea and is about to make award show history? Sponge! Bob! Square! Pants! With his best friend Patrick Star by his side, the porous icon will host the Nickelodeon ...

Ramesses III was one of Egypt’s great warrior pharaohs. A temple he built at Medinet Habu, near the Valley of the Kings, highlights why. On its walls, carvings tell the story of a coalition of ...

An interactive map shows how parts of Virginia could be submerged in water if sea levels continue to rise, as experts warn that coastal areas are at particular risk of the . The map by the National ...

Scientists are documenting a barrage of impacts — ones, they say, that will confront an even larger swath of U.S. coastal communities in the coming decades — even as they try to decipher the precise ...

These Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images feature the captivating creatures that live beneath the waves A hawksbill sea turtle munches away on a sponge near Juno Beach. Smithsonian Photo Contest ...