The nine-mile-long structure surrounding the Khaybar Oasis may have once protected against raiders | Continue reading
A successful eradication trial in East Anglia has raised biologists' hopes for ridding Great Britain of the destructive creatures, which threaten native wildlife | Continue reading
Researchers catalogued the genes of more than 300 million groups of marine bacteria, viruses and fungi in hopes that the database could lead to breakthroughs in medicine, energy and agriculture | Continue reading
South Georgia Island’s Cumberland Bay has seen a resurgence of the marine mammals | Continue reading
An exhibition at LACMA traces the roots of modern media to the Great War, when propaganda mobilized the masses, and questions whether the brutal truths of the battlefield can ever really be communicated | Continue reading
At her quirky outpost in Lucas, Kansas, Erika Nelson displays the world’s largest collection of the world’s smallest versions of the world’s largest things | Continue reading
The Charleston museum is launching a new initiative to acquire 50 privately owned works by 2030 | Continue reading
Davidson Galleries had been preparing to move to a new location, so some of its works were especially vulnerable to smoke damage | Continue reading
Astrobotic, the company in charge of the mission, says its Peregrine spacecraft will not reach the moon, and burning it will ensure the lander doesn't end up as space debris | Continue reading
Unseen for nearly 300 years, the art resurfaced during restorations at Christ's College | Continue reading
Dogs communicate through tail-wagging, and humans may have selected for the trait during domestication | Continue reading
A stream of particles flung from the planet's star is causing its atmosphere to boil away and lose 200,000 tons of mass per second | Continue reading
Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns | Continue reading
With his victory at last night's Emmy Awards, the celebrated musician is the 19th person in history to take home an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony | Continue reading
Fissures near Grindavík ejected lava for the second time in one month and engulfed three homes in the coastal fishing town | Continue reading
A forensic artist has reimagined what the man may have looked like 2,000 years ago | Continue reading
The city's 13th arrondissement honored the British musical legend on what would have been his 77th birthday | Continue reading
The endangered, squirrel-sized marsupials forage for termites during the day—but they can become too hot after just ten minutes in direct sunlight, according to new research | Continue reading
Sold in exchange for exit visas in 1939, the estimated $30 million masterpiece will stay at a Spanish museum | Continue reading
Global bans on finning have inadvertently opened up shark meat markets, prompting demand for threatened species, a new study reveals | Continue reading
While northern pups dive right in, their southern cousins take their time | Continue reading
Researchers studying the 160-year-old fur of a dog named Mutton in the Smithsonian collections found that the Indigenous breed existed for at least 5,000 years before European colonizers eradicated it | Continue reading
Freedom of information requests have revealed more details about absent artifacts from the last 20 years | Continue reading
Some of the Northern Hemisphere's most populous areas are at risk of warming past a critical threshold, after which snowpack melts rapidly with even small rises in temperature, study finds | Continue reading
Laser imaging has revealed an extensive network of settlements and roads that challenge historical understandings of the area | Continue reading
The remains, dug up in the 1980s, might shed light on T. rex's mysterious origins, according to a new paper | Continue reading
Researchers who investigated the site estimate that it's about 700 years old | Continue reading
Genetic variants linked to the risk of MS were brought to Europe during a migration around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds—and they might have helped herders survive | Continue reading
The stunning shots will make you wish you were there | Continue reading
A solar-powered electric vehicle, an at-home “multiscope,” an office bike that charges your devices and more were unveiled at the annual Las Vegas trade show | Continue reading
During their lifetimes, surfers rescue an average of three people in trouble, according to a new study | Continue reading
The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease | Continue reading
The massive primates were unable to shift their diet to keep pace with a changing climate, according to a new study, forcing them to eat less nutritious bark and twigs | Continue reading
The 2,300-year-old Palace of Aigai—the largest building in classical Greece—had been under renovation for 16 years | Continue reading
The structure's purpose is unclear, but researchers think it may have been used to divide the city in two | Continue reading
The now-extinct bears were mostly vegetarians and measured about the same size as today's North American grizzlies | Continue reading
The National Park Service had proposed replacing the statue with public resources showcasing the city's Native American history | Continue reading
After coal mine workers found the 50-pound specimen, paleontologists studied the site and uncovered more than 20 additional bones | Continue reading
The remains, found in an Oklahoma cave, belonged to a lizard-like reptile | Continue reading
Election-year items, truth serum, Nigerian art and a pioneering self-driving car are on display this year | Continue reading
Excavations at Saqqara revealed burials, colorful masks and statues of the goddess Isis | Continue reading
Spanish colonizers enslaved the Lucayans, putting an end to their lineage by 1530 | Continue reading
Climate scientists have confirmed that last year's heat was unprecedented, surpassing records by a wide margin—but it could be one of the coolest years to come | Continue reading
Cultural heritage supporters are hoping to see the facility listed as a protected site | Continue reading
Critics say the image is disrespectful of the original work, which the artist made as a commentary on the AIDS epidemic | Continue reading
Artemis 2 has been pushed from later this year to no earlier than September 2025, and the Artemis 3 moon landing will not occur before September 2026 | Continue reading
Biologists and conservationists are grappling with a controversial plan to kill 470,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest over the next 30 years | Continue reading
Cartographer Robert Szucs uses satellite data to make stunning art that shows which oceans waterways empty into | Continue reading