The 712-year-old artifact is a horary quadrant, a medieval tool used to tell time based on the position of the sun | Continue reading
In the absence of tourists, the animals increased within Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo National Park | Continue reading
A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion | Continue reading
Enslaved workers toiled for hours in a dark, cramped space to grind grain for bread | Continue reading
The six-and-a-half-foot-long pliosaur skull was excavated from a rock cliff in England and may belong to a new species, scientists say | Continue reading
The layer of lichen, moss and cyanobacteria helps shield the historic structure from erosion, a new study finds | Continue reading
The award-winning set designer Es Devlin explores the art of creating spectacle | Continue reading
In laboratory experiments, gene transfer occurred in 5 percent of zebrafish larvae that were near eels when they discharged electricity | Continue reading
The rare images are among a collection of artifacts connected to the "Lady with the Lamp" that recently sold at auction | Continue reading
New research suggests the electricity costs would exceed $300 million per year and carbon dioxide emissions could approach one million metric tons annually | Continue reading
Odeuropa is an online database of scents from 16th- to early 20th-century Europe culled from historical literature and art | Continue reading
Researchers are tracking invasive goldfish—which, often, were once kept as pets—in Lake Ontario to determine how best to manage them | Continue reading
The group meets once a month to talk about one or two pages of the bewildering James Joyce novel | Continue reading
The critically endangered creatures were flown by private plane to rehabilitation centers in Florida | Continue reading
"Women Dressing Women" gives often-forgotten figures in fashion history their due | Continue reading
Discover a city that is both a canvas and a muse for creators of all kinds | Continue reading
In the U.S., the rare event will only be visible from southern Florida, but it will be livestreamed from Italy for viewers everywhere | Continue reading
The gentle, pinkish-orange hue was chosen to reflect a collective desire for respite | Continue reading
A new analysis of the animals' skeletal remains reveals a lack of sunlight and an inadequate diet | Continue reading
From uncovering a tyrannosaur’s last meal to unlocking the secrets of a dino with a really long neck, these were the year’s biggest stories | Continue reading
The baby gator, which doesn't have a name yet, was born with leucism, a condition that affects pigmentation | Continue reading
The musical is loosely based on the 15-time Grammy winner's childhood | Continue reading
The prehistoric specimens found in Colombia could represent one of the oldest and largest turtle species to ever exist | Continue reading
Stomach contents from a juvenile Gorgosaurus reveal it feasted on small, bird-like species 75 million years ago | Continue reading
The steamship "St. Lucie" went down in a hurricane, killing 26 passengers on board | Continue reading
Travel vicariously to one of the world’s most picturesque locales | Continue reading
The painter’s streetscapes and neighborhood scenes mesmerize, but now he is being recognized for documenting a changing urban landscape | Continue reading
New research explores how moisture affects static electricity and clumping of ground coffee beans | Continue reading
The rock band is the first in the U.S. to immortalize its performances with a digital recreation | Continue reading
Even at his advanced age, the Seychelles giant tortoise shows “no sign of slowing down,” his vet tells Guinness World Records | Continue reading
Visitors will be safely strapped in as they sit atop a beam hundreds of feet above New York City | Continue reading
A new report finds the global average temperature so far this year is 1.46 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average | Continue reading
From stories on the depths of the ocean to the stars in the sky, these are the works that moved us the most this year | Continue reading
The multidisciplinary artist wanted us to imagine how we can shape society and uplift our communities | Continue reading
Artist Emilie Gossiaux has been working with a 13-year-old lab named London for a decade | Continue reading
Lionel Licorish earned accolades for rescuing as many as 20 passengers from the wreckage of the S.S. "Vestris" | Continue reading
Conservationists discovered two brown kiwi chicks one year after the birds were reintroduced in a Wellington suburb | Continue reading
A resurrected version of Luna Luna, a fairground started by artist André Heller in 1987, opens in Los Angeles later this month | Continue reading
Airbnb is offering one family a chance to spend three festive nights in Rovaniemi, Finland | Continue reading
As rising temperatures threaten the Arctic mammals, scientists are turning to new, non-invasive methods to study them | Continue reading
Today, only female mosquitoes feed on the blood of animals, while males are satisfied with plant juices | Continue reading
Researchers have used skeletal remains to compile information about the lives of ordinary residents of the city | Continue reading
At his peak, the television icon, who died at 101, reached more than 120 million Americans with shows like "All in the Family" | Continue reading
The study—the first to look at these neurons while animals are awake and consuming food—could tell us about our own appetites | Continue reading
Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast | Continue reading
In 2020, voters narrowly passed a measure in favor of wolf reintroduction, and now, wildlife officials are about to begin the controversial effort | Continue reading
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines zines' role in art history and community building | Continue reading
The celebrated 86-year-old designed the large-scale holiday displays using his iPad | Continue reading