New research sheds lights on the possible identity of Cato, the Black man who conveyed the tailor's life-saving intelligence ...

A Smithsonian ecologist is trying to restore the plant, Spiranthes delitescens, which grows on Arizona’s sky islands ...

New research finds that 79 percent of Fiji's endemic ant species—those that are native to and only found on the archipelago—are in decline ...

Archivists discovered notes for the project, called "The Spectator," in the artist's New York City office after he died in ...

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we ...

The cephalopods appear to favor using their front arms, according to a new study, though their back arms help with locomotion ...

The still lifes were part of the Schloss collection, which was seized in 1943. Auction house officials halted the sale when they learned of the artworks' suspected provenance ...

Zagreb-born artist Nora Turato transforms everyday fragments of speech and text into a mirror of our shared unconscious ...

On December 16, 1773, American colonists stormed three British ships and hurled 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to ...

At least some of the barrels contain caustic alkaline waste, which has made the surrounding ecosystems inhospitable to most life forms, a new study suggests ...

After analyzing bone fragments found in millennia-old trash piles, researchers say that people may have brought livestock ...