Challenge trials help researchers study immune responses. Skeptics still doubt the approach is worth the risks ...

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...

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The royal treasures were stashed away at the beginning of World War II. Experts knew the trove existed, but previous attempts ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" ...

The annual event takes place in the Massachusetts town of New Bedford, which is where Herman Melville's celebrated 1851 novel ...

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help ...

During World War II, the crew of the Zaida were among the everyday Americans who risked their lives watching out for enemy ...

A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...