Meteorological tsunamis likely sank the 13th-century trading vessels, whose cargo included objects from both Christian ...

Katie Hitchcock-Smith is a freelance writer, photographer and explorer who has been published in National Geographic and ...

Researchers found evidence of malaria in Francesco I de' Medici's bones, leading them to argue "with scientific certainty" ...

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

Designed for the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, the desk is made from more than a dozen blocks of jagged, green-tinted ...

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...

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Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that form the ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

Also known as Sebastian, he died in 1729 and is buried alongside Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Paul Revere. His life tells a ...

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

A gold ring unearthed at the Don Yai Thong archeological site in Thailand is engraved with what experts think is Brahmi, an ...