New research on branching animals known as octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over 200 million years ...

Scientists are planning to study the specimen, embedded in travertine from western Turkey, in hopes of dating and identifying ...

When a fire nearly destroyed Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019, a collection of 17th-century masterpieces was hanging in ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth had been transmitting nonsense since November, but after an engineering tweak, it finally ...

In the early 16th century, the Renaissance master Michelangelo drew a simple scribble. The pen-and-ink sketch, which is just ...

Called ABJ and Fe, the duo mated every spring for 25 years—but they split up in 2022. Now, they’re back at their Michigan ...

An American aviator finds his way to a meaningful life in a North Vietnam prison Halyburton (at left) and Stan Olmstead ...

Susan Tate Ankeny is the author of nonfiction World War II history books, including American Flygirl and The Girl and the ...

A second-generation immigrant, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Chinese American woman to receive her pilot's license ...

Researchers have cloned two black-footed ferrets from preserved tissue samples in an effort to conserve the creatures, the ...

Now, 84 years later, the bunkers beneath Villa Torlonia, Mussolini’s home in Rome, have reopened to the public. Visitors can ...

Using surgically implanted electrodes and modeling, researchers brought to life the vocal muscle activity of sleeping great ...