If you consider yourself an art history buff, test your smarts with Anthropeum. The game pulls 10 images from the Met's ...

Bernardo de Gálvez indirectly contributed to the Continental Army’s victory at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. A rare painting of ...

Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches' movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, ...

New research indicates "Homo floresiensis" probably wasn't hunting big game or using fire on Flores Island, suggesting the ...

Seals, penguins and fish are featured in the nonprofit’s annual competition to inspire care for the world’s oceans ...

This November, visitors to the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles will get to see the "ready-to-launch" ...

Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but ...

Sending a man to the moon required an overhaul of the entire space program, involving more powerful rockets and new ...

According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

The pictures, on the competition's shortlist, reveal the remarkable celestial objects that lie above our heads, both in deep ...

Poet, philosopher, and suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote a rallying cry in 1861 that would resonate for more than a ...

Engineers in Singapore have developed a new, multistep chemical process that transforms organic waste into useful, ...