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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the first ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

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

With teams competing in outlandish physical challenges, the Zogo dell’Oca of Mirano showcases Italy’s flair for invented ...