The 3-D–printed figures will be displayed on the National Mall in celebration of Women's History Month | Continue reading
If conditions stemming from exposure to alcohol in-utero can be better identified, then scientists can more effectively research treatments | Continue reading
The structure is one of the oldest of its kind in the Gandhara region | Continue reading
The Hirshhorn's show, "A Countervailing Theory," posits a society where gender roles are reversed | Continue reading
Abnormal growths in its fossilized neck bones suggest that the long-necked dino suffered from a pneumonia-like illness | Continue reading
In Indonesia, a local bird catcher trapped the large reptile and sawed off the trash because he didn’t want to watch the animal suffer | Continue reading
As NASA astronomers adjust its mirrors over the next month, the dots of light will eventually align into one image of a star in Ursa Major | Continue reading
The move is heralded as a conservation success but faces criticism from hunters and ranchers | Continue reading
The massive void, zipping at 28 miles per second, may have been blasted into space by a supernova explosion | Continue reading
Nearly identical beads carved from ostrich eggshells, found over a large region of Africa, might have been a first in cool trends | Continue reading
From roller armor to a weight helmet, these patented pieces of exercise equipment came and went | Continue reading
Prolific audio naturalist Martyn Stewart has released a free collection of his remarkable recordings before his passing | Continue reading
London's Natural History Museum has announced five winners of the 57th annual competition | Continue reading
A solar outburst is increasing atmospheric drag and pulling the satellites back down to Earth | Continue reading
The experiment could advance pacemaker technology and bring science closer to developing artificial hearts for people | Continue reading
Uncovering the vibrant and complicated history of the formerly French colonial city, once known as “the Paris of the South” | Continue reading
Uncovered at the largest burial site in Buckinghamshire, the bodies may have belonged to criminals or outcasts, researchers suggest | Continue reading
Families were stripped of their rights and freedoms in February 1942, when FDR signed Executive Order 9066 | Continue reading
The singers will memorize a 30-minute playlist and remix the order later to avoid losing their lover's attention | Continue reading
The archeologists also uncovered a number of Neanderthal artifacts suggesting the two species coexisted in the area | Continue reading
White-tailed deer could become a reservoir for Covid-19, putting people and animals at risk | Continue reading
Olympic ski jumpers do everything they can do counteract the effects of gravity and fly as far as they can down hills | Continue reading
The big cats are stealthy predators, but the mountain-climbing ungulates are agile defenders | Continue reading
Willow Biden isn’t the first feline to grace the presidential residence's halls | Continue reading
Australian archaeologists say they've found the wreck of the British explorer's research vessel. American scholars called the announcement "premature" | Continue reading
By analyzing the light it reflects, scientists can say whether that floating blob in a satellite image is made up of shrimp, seaweed or something else | Continue reading
Parachute science and lingering colonialism in fossil studies have negatively impacted the discipline | Continue reading
In the 1930s, the mystery writer accompanied her archaeologist husband on annual digs in the Middle East | Continue reading
The discovery of vomited projectiles from two pterosaurs provides new clues about the its diet and digestive system | Continue reading
Archeologists found bones from a woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, wolf, hyena, horse, reindeer, mountain hare, red fox and various small mammals | Continue reading
Within days of their implants being activated, all three men were able to walk with support | Continue reading
An entire pack may have been 'eliminated' near the park's vulnerable border in Montana, where hunting restrictions were gutted last year | Continue reading
In 1963, the civil rights leader shoved aside a guardsmen’s bayonet with disgust and defiance; photography preserved the charged moment | Continue reading
New research is revealing how physical activity can reduce and even ward off depression, anxiety and other psychological ailments | Continue reading
Known as "ostraca," the inscribed pottery shards document everyday life in the city of Athribis | Continue reading
The revolutionary may have tried to find the author's grandfather by raiding a New Mexico village—but a friend's camera truly captured her family patriarch | Continue reading
The researchers replicated experiments done in the '60s and '70s with updated knowledge of feline lineage | Continue reading
In a first, chimps in Gabon were seen applying insects to sores on themselves—and others, a possible show of empathy | Continue reading
Between the 1910s and 1960s, thousands of young women formed the backbone of the country's thriving fishing industry | Continue reading
In these sports that send humans hurtling faster than a car on a highway, tiny motions mean the difference between gold and a crash | Continue reading
As the climate warms, gentoo penguins are expanding to habitats that were previously too icy for them to raise chicks | Continue reading
A whiteish layer of haze forms where methane reacts with sunlight | Continue reading
A new movie sets its doomed entrepreneurs amidst 17th-century “tulipmania”—but historians of the phenomenon have their own bubble to burst | Continue reading
As a living, breathing city, the sights, sounds and smells of Colonial Williamsburg can capture the entire family's sense of adventure | Continue reading
Connect more deeply with history, relax in 18th-century style, and experience fun for the whole family | Continue reading
Sinkholes across the Yucatan Peninsula provided perfect growing conditions for the plant, used as currency in the Mesoamerican civilization | Continue reading
Nicknamed the "Black Pentagon," the building served as a meeting place for local racial justice activists | Continue reading
Many Indigenous groups documented the cosmic event with oral histories and other records, including earthworks | Continue reading