Geologists are working with local communities to determine how residents can adapt as the area's sea level, in effect, goes down | Continue reading
A web of technical failures, human errors and corporate malpractice in Bhopal, India, culminated in an unthinkable tragedy on this day in 1984 | Continue reading
A new, “mind-blowing” discovery reveals evidence that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei stepped at the same site within days—or hours—of each other | Continue reading
The term refers to "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state" that's linked to spending extensive stretches of time scrolling through low-quality content | Continue reading
While Neanderthals have been found to create glue-like substances with other materials, this finding, if confirmed, would be the first sign of Neanderthals burning the rockrose plant to make tar | Continue reading
With new ingredients and processes, the next generation of substitutes will be not just more egg-like, but potentially more nutritious | Continue reading
At an exhibition in England, curators have placed artworks alongside diffusers that dispense carefully crafted fragrances, which visitors can trigger by pushing a button | Continue reading
In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of the same species broke out of a South Carolina research facility | Continue reading
Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on through a glass barrier | Continue reading
Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility | Continue reading
Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a beacon for religious tolerance on the coast of New England | Continue reading
A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period of partisan hostility | Continue reading
Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the British Empire | Continue reading
Creative circuitry and rolling robots make up this year’s top toys for teaching kids to love science, technology, engineering and math | Continue reading
The 1729 attack in present-day Mississippi was part of a vicious cycle of violence and retribution | Continue reading
Held on this day in 1895, the 54-mile round trip took more than ten hours and involved accidents with streetcars, horses and snowbanks | Continue reading
The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history that's been open to the public | Continue reading
Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the 6.8-mile-long scar on the landscape—without anyone noticing | Continue reading
Ethiopian wolves like to lick up the flower nectar of red hot poker plants, and researchers have caught the behavior on camera | Continue reading
Pre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., according to a new study | Continue reading
The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time that Stonehenge was created—and the new finds have just added another piece to the puzzle | Continue reading
Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives | Continue reading
The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected to the military. Historians think it was used as a protective amulet | Continue reading
The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants | Continue reading
Engineers discovered the mysterious missive while working on repairs at Corsewall Lighthouse last month. Now, they plan to write their own note for future generations to find | Continue reading
The collision in Stephan's Quintet was observed by WEAVE, a new instrument on one of the world's most powerful telescopes, in its first major scientific results | Continue reading
A team of experts has created a digital avatar of the maligned monarch, who speaks with a Yorkshire accent. The 15th-century king was born in Northampton, but he spent much of his life in northern England | Continue reading
The intact burial—unearthed on this day in 1922—contained a "wonderful" cache of objects linked to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh | Continue reading
The term's popularity skyrocketed after content creator Jools Lebron used it in a now-viral TikTok video, in which she described being "very demure, very mindful" | Continue reading
Marine biologists are perplexed by the lone bottlenose dolphin's vocalizations, because some resemble sounds typically used for communication | Continue reading
Divers, distillers and researchers recently recovered grain from the "James R. Bentley," a wooden schooner that sank during a storm in 1878 | Continue reading
Revealed by a German fossil, the newly described species sheds light on questions that scientists have been puzzling over for nearly two centuries | Continue reading
A new paper reveals how Aboriginal people changed the landscape by burning, demonstrating how similar practices could help manage modern bushfires | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered traces of hallucinogens in a small vessel depicting an Egyptian deity that may have been used in ancient rituals | Continue reading
As many wild populations decline, some city dwellers flourish—and may become a source for reintroductions to rural areas | Continue reading
Each year, millions of straw-colored fruit bats descend on Kasanka National Park for a few months, and scientists are working to understand their mysterious journey | Continue reading
Southern operatives tried to light New York businesses on fire and bring the Northern city to its knees on this date in 1864 | Continue reading
On this day in 1542, the Battle of Solway Moss left James V enfeebled and ill, clearing the way for his young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, to claim the throne weeks later | Continue reading
Until Mercury released the statement, tabloid newspapers hounded the ailing singer, while only a smaller inner circle knew about the extent of his illness | Continue reading
At nearly three million years old, the exoplanet is about the age of a two-week-old baby in planet-years | Continue reading
Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known alphabetic scripts | Continue reading
Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he'd put on some weight and regained his strength | Continue reading
Makenzie Van Eyk wrote the letter as part of a class project in 1998, when she was in fourth grade. Recently, the note was discovered by a boy who goes to school with her daughter—who is now in fourth grade herself | Continue reading
The monarch set fashion trends during her time, and the flower holder became a sought-after accessory in Victorian society | Continue reading
Scientists say just 200 grams of the material could capture 44 pounds of the greenhouse gas per year—the same as a large tree | Continue reading
Found in western Germany, the stone plaques feature etchings of fish trapped in grid-like nets, according to a new study | Continue reading
The insects participate in elaborate courtships, are devoted parents, occasionally eat each other and have a gregarious nature | Continue reading
The items include artistic urns, a bone comb and an ancient sarcophagus with a full skeleton inside | Continue reading