Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Museum of Contemporary American Teenager is teaming up with American University to bring ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art.

But now, the government of Peru has slashed the borders of the protected archaeological park that encompasses the Nazca Lines ...

Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...