Gravesite readings and performances keep the stories of the dearly departed alive for a new generation | Continue reading
The 2018 blast was the most significant active submarine eruption ever documented | Continue reading
Should historic health officials' response to yellow fever outbreaks on the Iberian Peninsula serve as a model for modern pandemic management strategies? | Continue reading
The new resolution outlines steps toward a 'racially just recovery' from the Covid-19 pandemic for all New Yorkers | Continue reading
A new exhibition highlights the dazzling breadth of the 20th-century painter, sculptor and photographer's oeuvre | Continue reading
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The newly restored road, once lined with around 700 towering sculptures, is set to open to the public in the coming weeks | Continue reading
You can play the ukulele, learn photography or record a song in a top-flight studio. You can also check out a book | Continue reading
Keepers worked with breeding parents Lola and Coco, who soon “become very interested in each other” | Continue reading
An exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum features some of the painter's most famous portraits of power players in Henry VIII's court | Continue reading
U.S. Navy Pilots David McCampbell and Roy Rushing made history in a heroic air battle over the Leyte Gulf | Continue reading
The continent is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, despite its population contributing little to the problem | Continue reading
Smuggled into Colombia by the drug kingpin in the 1980s, the African mammal is now a growing environmental threat in the South American country | Continue reading
The results challenge previous theories about the origin of dog domestication | Continue reading
Stranded by the pandemic, Yannis Davy Guibinga made a connection with home through his art | Continue reading
A colony of 1,000 breeding pairs of African penguins nests on the beaches and in the gardens of Simon's Town | Continue reading
The author of a new biography shines a humane light on the monarch despised by the colonists | Continue reading
The 40,000-year-old finds suggest that early hominins occupied Althorp Estate long before it became home to the Spencer family | Continue reading
The infection affects at least half of koalas living in southeast Queensland and New South Wales | Continue reading
This climatic change will likely prolong the region's devastating drought through 2022 | Continue reading
As a hub for research and education, the Institution is poised to help the world find solutions to the global challenge | Continue reading
A Minnesota museum's third annual contest invites the public to vote on which of nine antique toys is the most unsettling | Continue reading
The discovery offers insight into what will happen to our solar system after the sun collapses | Continue reading
Tree ring evidence of an ancient solar storm enables scientists to pinpoint the exact year of Norse settlement | Continue reading
The beloved desert denizen is feeling the heat | Continue reading
A new book by scholar Mary Wellesley spotlights the anonymous artisans behind Europe's richly illuminated volumes | Continue reading
As the German army marched across France, Aristedes de Sousa Mendes faced a choice: obey his government or follow his conscience—and risk everything | Continue reading
Frankish soldiers camped at the site before the 1187 Battle of Hattin, which ended in a decisive victory for Muslim sultan Saladin | Continue reading
The trash collection device dubbed 'Jenny' could help address overwhelming marine plastic pollution | Continue reading
Readers in the U.S. can borrow 50 titles, including collections of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes and a sci-fi novel by Octavia Butler | Continue reading
The rare sixth-century grooming tool features intricate carvings of a hunting scene | Continue reading
In this excerpt from ‘Music Is History,’ the drummer for the Roots and all-around music ambassador looks at a year when everything changed | Continue reading
Excavations at a site in northern Israel are at the heart of a debate about the species' migrations | Continue reading
The world is bonkers for sneakers. This pivotal 1996 concept for basketball superstar Michael Jordan is a big reason why | Continue reading
New documentary tells the story of a Black and LGBTQ thinker who helped lay the legal groundwork for fighting gender- and race-based discrimination | Continue reading
A hostile landscape. Cramped quarters. Dehydrated food. A photographer takes part in an attempt to live on another planet | Continue reading
In the frigid Baltic Sea, archaeologists probing the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a revolutionary warship are seeing the era in a new way | Continue reading
The decorated general broke racial barriers in the U.S. military but attracted criticism for his part in paving the way for the Iraq War | Continue reading
The project aims to quantify the impact of climate change on the species | Continue reading
The committee said some J&J recipients might have a stronger immune response by opting to get a Moderna or Pfizer booster instead | Continue reading
The findings could upend scientists' understanding of human evolution—but the paper has proven controversial | Continue reading
The four-foot-long weapon is encrusted in marine organisms but otherwise in "perfect condition" | Continue reading
New medicines may stop the virus from replicating so your immune system can fight a few viral soldiers instead of an army | Continue reading
A recent auction of the Chicago gangster's mementos testifies to his enduring appeal—and the thorny nature of collecting items owned by criminals | Continue reading
Scholars have yet to identify the young boy, but new research offers insights on his age and likely background | Continue reading
Ruth Hamilton awoke unharmed when the fist-sized space rock landed on her pillows | Continue reading
Scientists found no distinct relationship after examining ancient teeth of both populations | Continue reading