"I haven't written anything for three years," he admitted in the note, which will go to auction this summer | Continue reading
Three veteran aurora chasers and a NASA scientist share everything you need to know to check these dazzling displays off your bucket list | Continue reading
Charlotte, a female round stingray in North Carolina that has gathered a legion of online fans, is no longer pregnant due to a "rare reproductive disease" | Continue reading
The black-and-white landscape dupes, which have since been taken down, violated Adobe's generative A.I. policies | Continue reading
Now 75 years old, the dystopian novel still rings alarm bells about totalitarian rule | Continue reading
One researcher thinks the structure was used for ancient rituals during a period of bitter cold | Continue reading
Ace-Liam Ankrah, who turns 2 in July, has already hosted a solo exhibition and sold 15 original pieces | Continue reading
The conspicuous reptile renderings spotted along the Orinoco River likely functioned as territorial markers, akin to pre-Colombian road signs | Continue reading
More Americans are eating and learning about dishes such as fufu and curried goat in establishments recognized by the highest echelon of the culinary world | Continue reading
The bones belonged to a dinosaur that was likely a teenager when it died. Only a handful of young T. rex skeletons have ever been found | Continue reading
The basic urge is surprisingly complex and can go awry as we age | Continue reading
The most complete skull of the extinct, flightless bird ever found has revealed adaptations that might have made the creature well-adapted for a life near water | Continue reading
The short-lived eruption occurred in an area of the volcano that had not erupted since December 1974 | Continue reading
The plant's genome has about 50 times as many base pairs as a human's, and its DNA from a single cell would stretch longer than a football field | Continue reading
Lego is selling a 4,383-piece model of the historic structure ahead of the upcoming Paris Olympics | Continue reading
A protester was arrested on Saturday after plastering a poster over "Poppy Field" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris | Continue reading
Astronomers tempered expectations of the celestial event this week, pointing to others in the near future as more exciting opportunities for sky watchers | Continue reading
Amid climate change, drought and aging infrastructure, the largest metropolitan area in North America is struggling to conserve water in a major reservoir system | Continue reading
Archaeologists are puzzled by the 2,000-year-old burial site uncovered in central France | Continue reading
Some of these fish perform obligate parasitism, in which males attach to—and then fuse bodies with—the much-larger females | Continue reading
Two court cases over 200 years apart reflect what happens when commercial and artistic interests meet | Continue reading
Researchers are examining more than 4,200 New England documents to turn descriptions of the wind into data | Continue reading
The Middle East Institute show, "Louder Than Hearts," explores portraits of Arab and Iranian women through the lens of ten celebrated female artists | Continue reading
Some scientists are concerned that offering the 150-million-year-old dinosaur, called "Apex," to the highest bidder could land the fossil in private hands, where it is unavailable to researchers | Continue reading
As two broods of periodical cicadas emerge across the U.S. this spring, people have discovered a few of the bugs that don’t have their trademark red eyes | Continue reading
The collection includes artifacts spanning the ninth century B.C.E. to the second century C.E. | Continue reading
A recent discovery in a Polish library of 27 books that wer thought to have been lost sheds light on the breadth of the German scholars' work | Continue reading
Following turbulence on a flight last week that led to one death and dozens of injuries, researchers, flight attendants and transportation officials alike are warning about links between warmer air and turbulence | Continue reading
The USS Harder, known by the nickname "Hit ‘em HARDER," was led by a commander known for his 'particularly audacious attacks' on Japanese warships | Continue reading
Beginning in the Renaissance, locals affixed verses protesting various societal ills to six sculptures scattered across the Italian city | Continue reading
Museum collections and a new documentary on Jim Henson’s life and career reveal how his creativity cemented his legacy | Continue reading
Cut marks on canine bones demonstrate that English colonists relied on dogs for meals | Continue reading
It's the fifth eruption near the town of Grindavik since December, signaling a new era of volcanic activity for the region | Continue reading
A new study finds the black-and-white marine mammals tend to make shorter, shallower dives compared to humpback and blue whales, making orcas the "sprinters" of the ocean | Continue reading
The jawless, parasitic fish largely haven't changed over the last 340 million years, but they might be better sources for studying our own evolution than thought, a recent study suggests | Continue reading
An Egyptologist recently concluded that a fragment of an overlooked granite coffin bears the great pharaoh's name | Continue reading
Membership services like Flow Club, Flown and Caveday offer online study halls complete with proctors and goal setting | Continue reading
A food history writer and an influential podcast host tell us how our thinking about health and body weight has—and hasn’t—evolved ever since Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters took the nation by storm | Continue reading
Nash became a flight attendant in 1957 and never stopped working | Continue reading
Three carrion crows engaged in a simplified version of counting when prompted, and the birds showed signs of planning out their responses | Continue reading
By putting an ancient skull under the microscope, scientists are proving that cancer research is about 1,000 years older than previously thought | Continue reading
Six people developed symptoms of roundworm infection after consuming grilled black bear meat and vegetables in July 2022, and all have since recovered | Continue reading
Researchers recently discovered bloodshed-themed stick-figure sketches in a cluster of houses in the doomed ancient city | Continue reading
A team of Mitsubishi engineers harnessed high-speed motors and an A.I. algorithm to eclipse the previous record, set six years ago | Continue reading
Astronomers have again discovered evidence of recent volcanic activity on Earth's sister planet in data from the 1990s | Continue reading
A new paper suggests that plants may use slow seed years to prevent the spread of disease | Continue reading
A pair of the bears will arrive at the Smithsonian's National Zoo by the end of 2024 | Continue reading
The 1924 Indian Citizenship Act sought to assimilate Native people into white society. But the legislation, signed by President Calvin Coolidge, fell short | Continue reading