From November 9, 2024, to May 4, 2025, the Museo Nazionale Romano will host a spectacular exhibition at the Baths of ...

This is a photo of Lucy. Or rather, it’s Lucy, as she was imagined by a sculptor working for a museum. Probably the National ...

Welcome to This Day in History! Today, we take a moment to reflect on some significant events that have shaped our world on ...

On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, ...

Soon after, Darwin wrote to the geologist Charles Lyell, “I never saw a more striking coincidence... if Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract!” ...

How many of the 160 named volcanoes in the U.S. and territories do you know? If you live in Alaska you have a big advantage.

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live. It is why life takes "such ...

Beetles are an evolutionary success, with rove beetles' diversification largely due to their unique tergal gland that synthesizes defensive chemicals. This adaptation, evolving over millions of years, ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad ...

Oak trees have genetic flexibility that allows them to solve ecological problems. But even they will need our help to survive ...