In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

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Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island in 45 hours. Their efforts provide new insights into ...

The quintessential superhero has always stood for truth and justice, but the final part of his catchphrase has morphed to ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction. The collection sheds light on the man and the ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...