The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

The quintessential superhero has always stood for truth and justice, but the final part of his catchphrase has morphed to ...

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...

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 ...

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

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

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

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

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

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

Originally from Poland, writer Olga Mecking now lives in the Netherlands. She is the author of Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing.