In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

The quintessential superhero has always stood for truth and justice, but the final part of his catchphrase has morphed to ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

The world-first climate visa agreement will grant permanent residency status to 280 Tuvaluans per year as the island nation ...

A new study finds that entering N2 sleep—a deep phase of non-rapid eye movement sleep—may help lead to more “eureka” ...

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...