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 ...

Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features ...

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

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

Veterinarians in Vietnam perform surgeries, prepare special diets and craft recovery routines for moon bears to give them a ...

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

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

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the ...

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

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