The British Navy knew it couldn't completely disguise a ship to protect it from attack during WWI. So they turned to 'Dazzle Painting' which sought to disguise a ship's speed and direction. | Continue reading
Officials say images like these can help them learn how to better protect Brazil’s indigenous people | Continue reading
In 2011, declassified CIA documents shed light on a covert government program dating back to WWII. At its center was a submersible craft built for a hypothetical invasion of Japan. | Continue reading
The dig site found by metal detectorists 3 years ago appears to be a high-status homestead that once had two villas | Continue reading
A brief respite from the frontlines of the Pacific War sees American troops trying to inject a little comfort into their lives: from more habitable living quarters to enjoying the enemy's hidden supply of liquor. | Continue reading
A growing body of evidence points to how animals are aware of death and will sometimes mourn for or ritualize their dead | Continue reading
Christie's will sell the work from Paris-based art collective Obvious, which created ‘Portrait of Edmond Belamy’ with the machine-learning algorithm GAN | Continue reading
It's 1942 and the USS Silversides, a U.S. submarine submerged in the Pacific, is frantically trying to dodge depth charges dropped by a Japanese warship. Even a near miss could be catastrophic. | Continue reading
Road-tripping through prehistoric times on the West Coast | Continue reading
The founder of psychoanalysis collaborated with a junior American diplomat to lambaste the former president | Continue reading
Relive the aerial dogfights and naval clashes of the Battle of the Philippines Sea, thanks to stunning color footage. It is a visual record of the battle that underlined U.S. superiority in the Pacific. | Continue reading
A group of five adolescent male lions - dubbed the Musketeers - are wandering the desert looking to find their own kingdom. They come across a lioness, but not all seem interested in settling down. | Continue reading
Science confirms what you've always suspected: music these days is worse than it used to be | Continue reading
These horny buggers are actually here to help us fight the spread of disease | Continue reading
A group of orphaned lion cubs are facing an uncertain future. If they're to survive into adulthood, they will have to convince their reluctant aunt to share her kill with them. | Continue reading
On December 16, 1941, the Italian navy launched a daring attack on three British ships outside Alexandria harbor. At the heart of the operation was a unique weapon: a human torpedo. | Continue reading
To satisfy customers hungry for visions of the British colonies, these artists created wildly imaginative and inaccurate scenes | Continue reading
A sugar-sweet symbol for beat cops around the country | Continue reading
The same LIDAR technology that lets driverless cars | Continue reading
In late 1919 and early 1920, scientists and canners worked with the government to protect the public from the deadly toxin | Continue reading
The probe, which launches Sunday, will attempt to solve enduring mysteries about the sun | Continue reading
The ceremony itself was rooted in union-busting, laying the basis for the art vs. mass acclaim debate we see play out today | Continue reading
Researchers and archaeologists have recovered the remains of distinguished flyer Lawrence E. Dickson whose plane crashed during a mission in 1944 | Continue reading
Seminal research reveals that sperm change their cargo as they travel the reproductive tract—and the differences can have consequences for fertility | Continue reading
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine endorses the $1 billion Electron-Ion Collider | Continue reading
Before President Abdulla Yasmeen lost the country's election, his government ordered the demolition of the conservation-minded underwater sculpture garden | Continue reading
Black cooks created the feasts that gave the South its reputation for hospitality | Continue reading
Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children? | Continue reading
CDC spreads the word about the peril of pee in pools | Continue reading
In this professor's class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by drawing pictures, playing with beach balls—and knitting | Continue reading
A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization | Continue reading
In this professor's class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by drawing pictures, playing with beach balls—and knitting | Continue reading
Our ancestors and cousins didn't all live in the shadows of the Mesozoic world—some were burly carnivores | Continue reading
The tomb, which was found at a building site, measure 8.5 feet long and 5 feet wide | Continue reading
New research shows that ovulation in Serengeti wildebeests is accelerated and synchronized by the yammering of eager males | Continue reading
Disease, cultural change wiped out pre-contact populations, leaving no trace of ancient dogs’ DNA in modern counterparts | Continue reading
Scientists have taken the next steps toward creating an alternative fertility preservation method using modified ovarian tissue | Continue reading
Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes | Continue reading
Judging from the GoFly competition, they're much more likely to resemble flying motorbikes | Continue reading
Kadibil, who died at the age of 95, had her incredible odyssey recounted in the acclaimed 2002 film ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’ | Continue reading
How Spain chooses to memorialize Francisco Franco and the victims of his authoritarian regime is tearing the nation apart | Continue reading
Most giant cetaceans only got giant in the past 4.5 million years, suggesting they could have room to grow | Continue reading
A new model of the solar system suggest we have gas giants to thank for our watery world | Continue reading
Some researchers believe it could help predict student violence. Others worry about unintended consequences | Continue reading
At Massachusetts's Peabody Essex Museum, Tedi Asher is using neuroscience research to create impactful art experiences | Continue reading
While the proposed branch of the armed forces may be controversial, the history of the so-called | Continue reading
After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws | Continue reading
Rock fans do their own investigative work to understand their favorite groups’ influences. So why can’t the rest of us get with the program? | Continue reading