The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

On January 1, 2026, copyrights will expire for comics, books, movies, musical compositions and other creative works from 1930 ...

At hundreds of festivals each year around the world, enthusiasts grab their aerial toys and hope for the perfect windy ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...

The dual celestial events will ring in the new year, although the luminous "wolf" supermoon may hamper skywatchers' view of ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas ...

The book has been donated jointly to Christ Church and the Bodleian Library, which are both part of the University of Oxford ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually ...