Charles Blondin understood the appeal of the morbid to the masses, and reveled when gamblers took bets on whether he would plunge to a watery death | Continue reading
The space rock's initial nickname, Ultima Thule, drew criticism for its ties to Nazi ideology | Continue reading
A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment | Continue reading
Artist Maya Lin hopes to call attention to one of the dire effects of climate change with an installation in Madison Square Park | Continue reading
Communities of bacteria and other microbes in the human mouth can help researchers learn how these groups of organisms affect human health | Continue reading
How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning | Continue reading
Few people claimed to fully understand it, but the esoteric theory still managed to spark the public's imagination | Continue reading
Largely unchanged since it was invented, the Continuous Plankton Recorder collects plankton as it is towed behind a ship | Continue reading
The thief (or thieves) likely used heavy machinery to commit the crime | Continue reading
In 1897, the California native went to the frozen North looking for gold. What he found instead was the great American novel | Continue reading
By tempting an adorable pool of subjects with toys, a new study found that infants associate counting with quantities | Continue reading
A surprising examination of the original book jacket art to The Great Gatsby | Continue reading
With a little added organic matter, dusty lunar and Martian soil simulants produced tomatoes, rye, radishes and other crops in the lab | Continue reading
A tragedy at home led one intrepid historian to find and catalog precious correspondence for future generations to study | Continue reading
The Havering Hoard includes 100 pounds of artifacts recovered from an ancient enclosure ditch | Continue reading
How a covert U.S. Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value | Continue reading
Invented by rink owner Frank Zamboni, the ice-clearing machine celebrates its 70th anniversary this year | Continue reading
Only about 1,000 of 3,000 individual reefs have been documented, but the Great Reef Census hopes to fill in the gaps | Continue reading
Beautiful and insightful, the illustrations of the German naturalist helped shape a new understanding of the world | Continue reading
As the spooky clan makes a new appearance on the big screen, a look back on the mystery of their longevity | Continue reading
Trixie Friganza, an actress and suffragist, inspired the popular song of the seventh inning stretch | Continue reading
His contributions to mathematics and electrical engineering made him one of the most beloved and instantly recognizable men of his time. | Continue reading
The USPS, a $70 soup pot and whole lot of effort went into finding the perfect zip-up cardigan for Fred Rogers | Continue reading
The graphic designer is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from Cooper Hewitt for her recognizable computer icons, typefaces and graphics | Continue reading
A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they | Continue reading
For #FatBearWeek2019, the furever fabulous 435 Holly reigns triumphant | Continue reading
New simulations show the planet could have maintained moderate temperatures and liquid water until 700 million years ago | Continue reading
It's like pork. Or maybe veal | Continue reading
In Citrus County, Florida, hundreds of the gentle giants winter in the warm waters of Crystal River | Continue reading
And a conservation group needs the public’s help acquiring the property | Continue reading
Satellite images and a trek into the rainforest reveal a group of trees over 80 meters, or about 260 feet, and one as tall as 88.5 meters | Continue reading
New research suggests that one of the state’s greatest historians had a hand in perpetrating an infamous hoax | Continue reading
Experts say the panel painting was created by Florentine artist Cimabue around 1280 | Continue reading
A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War | Continue reading
A Tufts University undergraduate spotted three interlocking instances of the word “FALL” in Book 9 of the epic poem | Continue reading
Hundreds of big retail centers have gone under, but the shop-til-you drop lifestyle isn't dead yet | Continue reading
Hundreds of big retail centers have gone under, but the shop-til-you drop lifestyle isn't dead yet | Continue reading
Always cited as the hallmark of man’s innovation, here is the real story behind the wheel – from its origins to its reinvention | Continue reading
The microbes in the gastrointestinal tract influence the immune system and the brain, possibly playing a role in the development of Alzheimer’s | Continue reading
On Pipeline Road in Panama’s Soberania National Park, birdwatchers on high-end tours rack up two hundred bird species in a day and move on. But Corey Tarwater and Patrick Kelley have made it their life’s work to understand the daily melodramas of black-crowned antshrikes, first a … | Continue reading
Culture critic Beth Daniels argues the cartoon moose even allowed viewers to reckon with nuclear war | Continue reading
The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian Period and the present | Continue reading
The Vikram spacecraft went offline minutes before it was scheduled to touch down near the South Pole of the moon | Continue reading
Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business | Continue reading
During the Great Depression, a New Deal program brought books to Kentuckians living in remote areas | Continue reading
During the Great Depression, a New Deal program brought books to Kentuckians living in remote areas | Continue reading
At long last, the remains of Mungo Man are at rest after an agonizing clash between modern science and an ancient spirituality | Continue reading
More than 1,000 items have been unearthed there, among them rice bowls, sake bottles and Japanese ceramics | Continue reading