While working as a porter, Alfred L. Cralle witnessed how hard it was to serve ice cream cones one-handed. He saved the day ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

Using ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners, researchers identified subterranean structures just a few feet below the ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

The portrait of a fisherman was found in Minnesota by an anonymous collector. A new analysis has concluded that it could be ...

What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?

In recent years, the deep-sea giant isopod has also become a seafood delicacy in Vietnam, where it was discovered ...

The papers connected to author A.A. Milne—including original drafts, illustrations, letters, poems and corrected proofs—sold ...

Experts say the case is either a rare form of asexual reproduction or an instance of (very) delayed fertilization ...