Loring introduced audiences to the iconic character on "The Addams Family" in 1964 | Continue reading
A new survey of attacks by lions, wolves and other big carnivores shows that people in low-income countries are at greater risk | Continue reading
The author reflects on her classic 1967 novel, its 1983 film adaptation and its legacy today | Continue reading
The archive includes 240 linear feet of papers from Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne | Continue reading
Of the 580 images captured by the camera in November, about 400 were of the bear | Continue reading
The event was expected and not linked to climate change, researchers say | Continue reading
Hundreds of images from 1963 and 1964 are going on display at London's National Portrait Gallery | Continue reading
In a new report, the American Society of Human Genetics details its failures to address false and unjust uses of the field | Continue reading
Stargazers can look forward to watching a rare comet, a super blue moon and several spectacular meteor showers | Continue reading
“AirSpace” speaks to astronomer Shauna Edson and “Portraits” drops in on activist and author Gloria Steinhem | Continue reading
The new designation is intended to offer additional protection and resources to the historic port city | Continue reading
A facial recognition analysis found that the faces in a mysterious painting are virtually identical to those in the artist’s "Sistine Madonna" | Continue reading
The technology could one day assemble and repair hard-to-reach circuits, act as a universal screw or retrieve foreign objects from a body, researchers say | Continue reading
New research suggests noblewoman Anne d’Alégre used gold wire to keep her decaying teeth in place | Continue reading
The truck-sized space rock came within 2,200 miles of our planet, closer than some satellites | Continue reading
The X-57 Maxwell has removed some barriers to electric flight, but its funding expires soon | Continue reading
Born 150 years ago this week, the author was known for her incisive portrayals of women's everyday lives | Continue reading
Humans will probably never face a fungal apocalypse, but in the insect world, mind-controlling fungi can pose a serious threat | Continue reading
'Victory City' comes just six months after the author survived a violent attack at a speaking event | Continue reading
After devouring their island's deer, these canines may be the first land predators to rely on sea otters as a main food source | Continue reading
The Museum of London Docklands is hoping to locate lost garments for an exhibition on Jewish fashion designers | Continue reading
Two people equipped with Bluetooth earpieces will repeat to a judge what the robot tells them | Continue reading
Some of the five dozen items had been on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Continue reading
The retail giant’s mail-order business reigned supreme for more than a century, offering everything from quack cures to ready-to-build homes | Continue reading
The space agency has said that it will send the first woman and the first person of color to the lunar surface | Continue reading
A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa | Continue reading
He used television to help underserved children overcome barriers and succeed in the classroom | Continue reading
In just ten minutes, an ant could learn to identify urine from mice with cancerous tumors, a new study finds | Continue reading
More than 50 people have died as demonstrations escalate and police crack down on dissent | Continue reading
The day and evening ensembles will be the centerpiece of the American History Museum's popular "First Ladies" exhibition | Continue reading
The temperature in Yakutsk, Russia, dropped to a record-breaking minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit this month | Continue reading
Even as darkness gripped the forests for months, two small species made it home | Continue reading
A new study finds our planet's iron center shifts between spinning slightly faster and slightly slower than the surface—but not all experts agree | Continue reading
The reset comes amid the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats and climate change | Continue reading
The 2,300-year-old mummified teen was buried with 49 protective amulets, several made of gold | Continue reading
Two new lawsuits argue that tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are infringing on artists' rights | Continue reading
The polar desert is a prime zone for preserving space rocks dating back to our early solar system | Continue reading
The liquid impacts how we perceive taste and can influence what we choose to eat | Continue reading
With a new photovoltaic panel, researchers harness sunshine to harvest energy and food together, taking advantage of the full light spectrum | Continue reading
The Cuban-American artist will be inducted alongside Sade, Snoop Dogg, Jeff Lynne and others | Continue reading
The current outbreak has led to the deaths of more than 52 million birds in the United States | Continue reading
Captured in a national park in Australia, the cane toad was later euthanized due to the invasive animal’s threat to the environment | Continue reading
"Dance on the Beach" will be going up for auction for the first time since the 1930s | Continue reading
A wildlife enthusiast in eastern Canada stumbled across the magnificent event this month | Continue reading
The award-winning Beninese artist unveils a work dedicated to the president’s “generosity of heart” | Continue reading
The remains include five reptile heads and five nearly intact specimens | Continue reading
Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality | Continue reading
Actor Jimmy Vee says climbing inside the droid costume, now on view at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, is like entering “your own world" | Continue reading