New research indicates early humans and canines were interacting in the Americas 2,000 years earlier than previously thought ...

A conservation project sparks innovative research on the National Museum of American History’s Gunboat Philadelphia.

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections could cause serious damage to telecommunications systems, satellites and power grids ...

From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing ...

Mount Fuji’s last eruption, which happened on this day in 1707, was also its largest, spewing ash and debris over cities and ...

Because of his alleged involvement with the Ghost Dance movement, the Lakota leader, who died on this day in 1890, was seen ...

The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

The findings suggest that astronomers’ widely accepted cosmology models might be missing something—meaning the longstanding mystery known as the “Hubble tension” continues ...

Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a ...

Bao Li (whose name means “treasure” and “energetic”) and Qing Bao (“green treasure”) are the next step in a continuum of ...

The scales on crocodiles’ heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the ...