Geologists are working with local communities to determine how residents can adapt as the area's sea level, in effect, goes ...

A web of technical failures, human errors and corporate malpractice in Bhopal, India, culminated in an unthinkable tragedy on ...

A new, “mind-blowing” discovery reveals evidence that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei stepped at the same site within ...

The term refers to "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state" that's linked to spending ...

While Neanderthals have been found to create glue-like substances with other materials, this finding, if confirmed, would be ...

At an exhibition in England, curators have placed artworks alongside diffusers that dispense carefully crafted fragrances, ...

In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of ...

Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...

Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...

A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...

Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea Tim Gallagher Two ivory-billed woodpeckers in one of the historic photographs that ...

Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...