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

The ceramic vessels contained the bones of pre-Columbian Indigenous people, as well as fish, frog and turtle remains ...

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

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

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

The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...

Debris from capsules 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 ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

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