A couple of eastern North Pacific populations of orcas have qualities that set them apart, according to researchers | Continue reading
Genetic analysis of DNA from his skeleton offers not only a first glimpse at his face, but also insight into his mysterious death | Continue reading
Around the globe, teams of women are taking on traditionally male-dominated roles | Continue reading
Scientists are studying how the intelligent, social birds interact with touchscreens to help design mobile apps that serve as enrichment for the birds | Continue reading
This year’s top photographs capture the quiet and chaotic from the American South to East Asia | Continue reading
As ice melts into water and flows toward the equator, it redistributes mass around the Earth, affecting the planet's spin, a new study finds | Continue reading
Ailments of the mouth can put the body at risk for a slew of other ills, yet dentistry is often siloed | Continue reading
The tangy tale of how America’s children learned to squeeze life for all it’s worth | Continue reading
The artifact dates to a time when skates were used primarily for practical purposes | Continue reading
A massive container ship hit Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge this week, calling attention to the demands that ever-growing shipping vessels are placing on ports, canals and bridges | Continue reading
Richard Brock stumbled upon the treasure, valued at more than $38,000, about 20 minutes after starting his search | Continue reading
The coverings were added to protect the art, but critics worry they detract from the artist's intentions | Continue reading
The coverings were added to protect the art, but critics worry they detract from the artist's intentions | Continue reading
New research challenges the idea that restricting eating to a limited time frame is beneficial—though the work has some notable limitations, such as a reliance on self-reported eating habits | Continue reading
The world's smallest bear plays a crucial role in repairing its tropical habitat in Southeast Asia | Continue reading
Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives provided care to patients in hard-to-reach areas | Continue reading
Researchers spent three years developing a machine learning model that can predict how good beer will taste based on its chemical composition—and make suggestions for how to improve it | Continue reading
A lifelong passion for the national pastime led John Thorn to redefine the sport's relationship with statistics and reveal the truth behind its earliest days | Continue reading
Nobody knows the name of the child in "The Black Boy," but a museum in Liverpool is hoping someone will recognize him | Continue reading
The first image of the black hole taken in polarized light, the new view shows the supermassive structure's magnetic fields and hints that it could be hiding an enormous jet | Continue reading
Tests detected the virus at two farms in Texas and two farms in Kansas, but officials and scientists stress commercial dairy products remain safe to consume | Continue reading
A self-described "little man in a hurry," Joseph Hirshhorn built a premier modern art collection | Continue reading
The 16th- and 17th-century artifacts provide historical accounts of events such as the founding of Tenochtitlán | Continue reading
Only a few lunar sites are ideal for certain cutting-edge research—and they’re under threat from mining, satellites and bases, scientists argue | Continue reading
The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking—but not unprecedented | Continue reading
The Mediterranean capital city savors its connections to antiquity—while reappraising its past | Continue reading
You’ve got questions. We’ve got experts | Continue reading
Found off the coast of Florida, the HMS "Tyger" left some 300 crew members stranded on Garden Key in 1742 | Continue reading
A new study of Japanese tits provides the first evidence of non-primate animals using gestures to convey messages | Continue reading
Scientists found a 31 percent increase in fatal car crashes around the 2017 total solar eclipse, akin to spikes in traffic risk on busy holiday weekends | Continue reading
About 200 servers competed in the 1.2-mile race—a tradition that goes back to 1914 | Continue reading
The metal fragment was once part of a papal bull, an official communication distributed by the Catholic Church | Continue reading
George Hurrell’s photographs of actors from the 1930s and 1940s dazzle in a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery | Continue reading
Before the toromiro disappeared from the island, at least two men grabbed seeds from the last remaining plant and brought them home | Continue reading
As the Southwest dries, can a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less? | Continue reading
The message came in through the museum's online contact form on March 17 | Continue reading
How do filmmakers get period clothing to look the part? Inside the textile workshop where the past comes to life | Continue reading
The project—titled Museums Without Men—debuted in the U.S. and the U.K. during Women's History Month | Continue reading
Humans living in northwest Ethiopia around 74,000 years ago switched to eating more fish following the eruption, a behavior that might have enabled migration out of Africa | Continue reading
The object likely broke off a doomed plane during a crash on the isle of Arran | Continue reading
Your dog may know the word "ball" is associated with their favorite round squishy toy, according to new research that measured brain waves | Continue reading
Michel Talagrand took home the 2024 Abel Prize for his work on stochastic systems, randomness and a proof of a physics reaction that many experts thought was unsolvable | Continue reading
The Perth Museum in Scotland is unveiling digital reconstructions of men and women who lived in the region from the Bronze Age through the 16th century | Continue reading
A new modeling study suggests the dark dunes on Saturn's largest moon are made of tiny particles created by crashing comets and moonlets billions of years ago | Continue reading
Based in Greenwich Village, Heterodoxy had just one requirement for membership: An applicant must "not be orthodox in her opinion" | Continue reading
The experimental procedure was done on a man experiencing end-stage kidney failure last week who had been on the transplant waiting list for two years | Continue reading
The artifact, which features the words "like enduringly, love forever," had been declared a treasure by officials in Wales | Continue reading
Five California sites made the top ten list for unhealthiest air, according to a new report | Continue reading