When the U.S. government sent the Tsukamoto family to an incarceration camp in 1942, one neighbor stepped up to save the farms they left behind, giving them something to come home to | Continue reading
The artist's “L’empire des lumières” sold for a massive $121 million, and experts hope the large number could be a sign of renewal for a struggling art market | Continue reading
The newly described species of sea slug dwells in darkness in the ocean’s midnight zone, using a hood to capture prey with a Venus flytrap-like technique | Continue reading
Obesity leads to DNA alterations that affect gene activity and linger after weight loss, a finding that researchers say could help reduce stigma around the disease | Continue reading
The copy of "Harmonia Macrocosmica" dates back to the 17th century and includes ancient theories of the universe | Continue reading
The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation with personal data | Continue reading
Revealed by melting snow in the Alps, the imprints in rock were left by reptiles and amphibians during the Permian period, which ended with the world’s largest mass extinction | Continue reading
How the dubious tradition of song-sharking led to a strangely beautiful repository of folk art | Continue reading
An exhibition at the Getty Center shows that the painting's pigment faded over many years, creating the hue that art lovers are familiar with today | Continue reading
Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea | Continue reading
The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual | Continue reading
In the young, tiny nation, inventive chefs are putting their own twists on classic regional dishes, using river trout, berries and other locally sourced delicacies to create some of the hautest cuisine around | Continue reading
Survivors of the whale attack drifted at sea for months, succumbing to starvation, dehydration—and even cannibalism | Continue reading
"Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists" spotlights the women who influenced the Austrian neurologist—and the field of psychoanalysis more broadly | Continue reading
Microsoft and the Vatican used artificial intelligence to virtually recreate the historic Vatican City church | Continue reading
The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing individualized therapies for cancer and other diseases | Continue reading
The marble slab, which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E., is the oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Commandments. Nobody recognized its significance until decades after its discovery | Continue reading
Could the waterway that the city was built around make a comeback? | Continue reading
The architectural wonder re-established the designer as a titan of his generation and shifted the public's view of Modernism from a foreign movement to a part of the American character | Continue reading
Some of the gems may have featured in a royal scandal known as the "affair of the diamond necklace" that damaged the French queen’s reputation in 1785 | Continue reading
New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World | Continue reading
Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white | Continue reading
The president's humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled with profound reverence for the Union's ideals—and the men who died fighting for them | Continue reading
Scientists are celebrating the recovery of the species in Yosemite National Park, where they were decimated by the introduction of non-native fish and the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus | Continue reading
The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Plaza in Montgomery | Continue reading
Scientists analyzed the first and only rock samples from the region, which were brought back to Earth as part of a recent Chinese mission | Continue reading
Soon to be on display at the National Museum of American History, the laptop is the centerpiece of a criminal case that shows an evolving understanding of cryptocurrency | Continue reading
The frozen kitten, discovered in 2020, has stunned scientists with its remarkably well-preserved body | Continue reading
A tiny gladiator figurine was used as a handle on a 2,000-year-old copper folding knife found in an English river, suggesting that popular fascination with the ancient fighters reached the edges of the empire | Continue reading
Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been naming America’s most endangered historic places, attracting much-needed awareness and funding | Continue reading
The marble bust was made by the celebrated sculptor Edmé Bouchardon nearly 300 years ago. After a small town purchased it in the 1930s, it was lost for decades | Continue reading
The Australian Reptile Park’s annual callout is crucial to creating life-saving antivenom | Continue reading
The amphibians are at the mercy of mining operations that are destroying their ecosystems, but local communities throughout South America are fighting back | Continue reading
The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel | Continue reading
The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming's innovation and forever changed the face of modern medicine | Continue reading
After her detainment on this day in in 1872, Anthony was found guilty by a federal court. She refused to pay her "unjust" $100 fine | Continue reading
The massive global shortcut linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas took ten years to dig through the Isthmus of Suez and was built on the path of an ancient canal | Continue reading
Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in human history, experiencing a kaleidoscope of colors and images in a sleepy Swiss city | Continue reading
A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and themes | Continue reading
A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction block, where it could sell for up to $12,600 | Continue reading
The space agency’s chief health and medical officer refutes claims that Suni Williams, who is on the unexpectedly extended Boeing Starliner mission, appears unhealthily thin | Continue reading
Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest examples of rotational technology | Continue reading
A maximum of 20,000 people will be allowed to enter each day in an effort to protect the historic site in Italy, where misbehaving tourists are becoming a persistent problem | Continue reading
Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously thought, according to a new study | Continue reading
California offers lovely beaches, forests, deserts, mountains and more! | Continue reading
Researchers have excavated King Arthur's Hall, a rectangular enclosure in southwest England, and determined that it dates to at least 3000 B.C.E. | Continue reading
To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967 | Continue reading
A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II incarceration | Continue reading