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Commemorate Presidents’ Day With 15 Images That Celebrate the Founding Fathers

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Why a Marine Ecologist Was Thrilled to See a Critically Endangered Bird Very Far From Home

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Archaeology Students Unearth an Early Medieval Burial Pit During a Training Dig in England

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A Football-Sized Creature That Lived 307 Million Years Ago May Have Been One of the First Land Vertebrates to Eat Plants

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You Can Buy a Rare Broadside Copy of the Declaration of Independence From July 1776

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A Massive Monkey Research Center Might Turn Into a Primate Sanctuary. Animal Activists Rejoice While Scientists Worry

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Norman Rockwell's Painting of the Crestfallen Chicago Cubs Is Now on View at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Scientists Say They May Have Found a Long-Lost Lunar Lander—the First to Successfully Touch Down on the Moon 60 Years Ago

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This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Design Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

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How the Easy-Bake Oven, an Appliance That Allowed Kids to Heat Treats With a Light Bulb, Revolutionized the Toy Industry

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Feeling More Hate Than Love This Valentine's Day? Send Snarky 'Vinegar Valentines' to Your Enemies Like the Victorians Did

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The Tragedy of the Alps’ Disappearing Glaciers for Those That Live, Visit and Ski There

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Ice Fishermen Catch Record-Breaking 244-Pound Atlantic Halibut After Hours-Long Struggle

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Have We Reached the Final Days of the Mass-Market Paperback?

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A Gray Wolf Visited Los Angeles County for the First Time in a Century, Marking a Major Milestone in the Species' Recovery

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The U.S.'s Only Particle Collider Recreated Moments From the Early Universe. Now, It Has Closed—to Make Way for a New Instrument

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An Asteroid Ended the Age of the Dinosaurs. But How Did Their Reign Begin? Mysterious Early Reptiles May Hold the Answer

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Archaeologists Say They've Identified Traces of a 2,000-Year-Old Love Note Still Etched Into a Wall in Ancient Pompeii

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Your Daily Coffee Might Be Protecting Your Brain From Dementia, a New Study Suggests

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You Can Stay in Catherine Earnshaw's Bright Pink Bedroom, Straight Out of the New 'Wuthering Heights' Movie

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