By 2040, an average American's lifespan is projected to rise from 78.7 to 79.8 years, an increase of just 1.1 years | Continue reading
A new study suggests that exposure to large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency in three key areas | Continue reading
A new book calls attention to the 20th-century genius with more than 400 patents to his name | Continue reading
Christie's just auctioned its first piece of AI art—a portrait created via machine learning | Continue reading
An Oval Office photograph captured the bizarre encounter between the king of rock and roll and the president | Continue reading
The flexible wearable could be an alternative to current invasive methods of measuring central blood pressure within the human body | Continue reading
William Dudley Pelley and his Silver Shirts were just one of many Nazi-sympathizers operating in the United States in the 1930s | Continue reading
The Dynamoterror, a relative of Tyrannosaurs rex, lived millions of years before other known species of tyrannosaur | Continue reading
Material pulled from ceramic sherds reveals the favored foodstuffs in the 8,000-year-old city of Çatalhöyük in Turkey | Continue reading
91 of the objects on display were gifted to the museum on the condition that they be contextualized within the framework of America's art history | Continue reading
A new ant species joins a menagerie of other creatures cut off from their kind in isolated patches of urban green in NYC | Continue reading
Astronomers suspect that there's Neptune-sized celestial body trailing an exoplanet about 8,000 light years | Continue reading
A battery at the University of Oxford has been incessantly ringing two bells for 175 years—but no one knows exactly why it’s lasted so long | Continue reading
Your vote will determine which fish-chomping ursine competitor in Katmai National Park and Preserve is the chubbiest cubby of them all | Continue reading
Architect and author Charlie Hailey and photographer Donovan Wylie capture one of America’s last free places | Continue reading
Human remains dating back to the Roman Empire populate the grounds below the surface, representing a burden for developers but a boon for archaeologists | Continue reading
#PotterItForward was designd to warm the hearts of future readers | Continue reading
The ultra-thin, flexible antennas can be applied to nearly any surface using an airbrush | Continue reading
Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish | Continue reading
The genetic and neurological similarities between octopuses and humans shed light on how creatures became social beings | Continue reading
The Sunspot Observatory in New Mexico was closed for ten days due to a 'security threat,' though aliens and solar flares have been ruled out | Continue reading
Calling a pterosaur a dinosaur is an error of the same order of magnitude as saying that our species is a marsupial | Continue reading
New study argues that the 5,300-year-old Iceman’s community boasted surprisingly advanced health care techniques | Continue reading
On February 9, 1945, two submarines are poised to engage in a direct, underwater confrontation. It's the first - and only - underwater submarine dog fight in recorded naval history. | Continue reading
On February 9, 1945, two submarines are poised to engage in a direct, underwater confrontation. It's the first - and only - underwater submarine dog fight in recorded naval history. | Continue reading
It's June 1945 and the USS Barb has just launched an unprecedented attack on the factories of the Japanese island of Shari. It's the first time that rockets have ever been launched from a submarine. | Continue reading
Bonnethead sharks enjoy a diet of up to 60 percent seagrass, as well as crab, shrimp, snails and bonyfish | Continue reading
But the appearance of new chemicals is creating an uncertain future for polar bears, orcas and seabirds | Continue reading
Diahann Carroll's award-winning series was a hit, but it delivered a sanitized view of African-American life | Continue reading
A British frigate fires on the USS Constitution - but its shots either miss or rebound off its tough oak hull. It's a feat of resilience that earns the American warship her proud nickname: Old Ironsides. | Continue reading
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old | Continue reading
For actress Nichelle Nichols, the first black woman to have a continuing co-starring role on TV, it was the beginning of a lifelong career in activism | Continue reading
During WWII, Nazi forces were preparing to take the coastal city of Tobruk and tighten their grip on North Africa. In response, the Allies turned their attention to another key strategic location: the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta. | Continue reading
Park hopes that its avian garbage collectors will encourage humans to properly discard their rubbish | Continue reading
The USS Barb had an unusual target in its sights in 1945 - one that wasn't even in the water. It was a Japanese supply train on the island of Karafuto. | Continue reading
After the Napoleonic Wars caused a shortage of British Oak, frigate builders looked all over the empire for an alternative. They found one in India: a hard, water resistant wood called teak. | Continue reading
At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers | Continue reading
The USS Silversides is patrolling the Pacific during WWII when it finds itself in a terrifying situation: one of its torpedoes has jammed and is dangling out in the water, ready to explode. | Continue reading
Bombing ground targets from the air is tricky and not always accurate. But a new type of bomb creates an unimaginable level of destruction - and strengthens U.S. attacks in the Pacific. | Continue reading
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