Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in Chicago's Wrightwood 659 gallery later this week ...

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Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals but aren't found in reptiles, birds or amphibians ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

Diana Kruzman is a journalist reporting on religion, the environment and urbanism. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor and Gizmodo, among other publications ...

The 2-year-old male tiger is now at home with the other residents of the Great Cats exhibit. Get the facts on how animal care teams helped this endangered animal adjust to his new surroundings.

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Though sales of Frisbees remained steady, it wasn’t until Wham-O hired toy inventor Ed Headrick in 1964 as head of research ...