A total of 1,435 couples almost tripled the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people kissing beneath the ...
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft may upend Titan’s status as an ocean world. But it might still have ...
Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...
Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, the flesh-eating creature appears to be creeping closer to a comeback.
Among the museum’s artifacts, which were hidden during the long closure, are a 5,400-year-old mummy and remnants from the ...
Mountain lions are adapting to their defenseless, predictable prey, which return to Patagonia seasonally to nest and breed, ...
While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...
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The deposed Scottish queen wrote the four-page missive to her brother-in-law just a few hours before her execution in 1587 ...
New research finds that at least four individuals who died in the eruption were wearing woolen tunics and cloaks, which ...
David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...
While female green hermit hummingbirds have curved bills, males’ straighter mouthparts are built for stabbing one another, a ...