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This Renoir Painting of the Artist's Young Son Hadn't Been Seen for 100 Years. It Just Sold at Auction for $2 Million

These Monkeys Learned to Tap to the Beat of the Backstreet Boys. Can They Teach Researchers About the Origins of Human Musicality?

The Mammal With the Most Complex Milk Might Not Be Humans, After All. The Atlantic Gray Seal Could Take That Title

Giant Mirrors in Space Could Bring Sunlight After Dark, One Startup Says—and Astronomers Are Concerned

A Historian Has Finally Uncovered the Identity of the Nazi Gunman in a Haunting Holocaust Photograph

The Human Relative Who Owned This 3.4-Million-Year-Old Foot May Have Belonged to a Species That Lived Alongside Lucy

Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

Monk Parakeets Are Highly Social Birds, but They Slowly ‘Test the Waters’ When Making New Friends

'Rage Bait,' Which Describes Online Content Created to Make Us Mad, Is Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year

With His Sculptures Full of Natural Splendor, Artist Truman Lowe Could Make Wood Look Like Water

When Did Domestic Cats Take Over the World? New Research Suggests They Arrived in Europe and China Centuries Later Than We Thought

The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

For Some Male Pheasants, Love Really Is Blind. Their Elaborate Feathers That Impress Females Also Obstruct Their Vision

Go Behind the Scenes at an Iconic Irish Library as Staff Move 700,000 Historical Treasures Into Storage

Touring Charleston’s Historic Past

Scientists Say These Small Electrical Discharges May Be the First Direct Evidence of Lightning on Mars

Experts Say This Small Drawing of a Foot May Be a Long-Lost Study for Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Sting's Musical 'The Last Ship' Docks at the Metropolitan Opera House More Than a Decade After Its Broadway Debut

Ancient DNA Reveals That a Teenage Girl Chewed on This Wad of 'Gum' 10,500 Years Ago

Pigeons Rely on the Earth’s Magnetic Field to Navigate. Now, Researchers May Have Uncovered How They Do It

A DNA Analysis of Almost 3,000 Canines Suggests That Most Dogs Have a Little Wolf in Them

Your Brain Goes Through Five Distinct Epochs of Neural Wiring During Your Lifetime, New Research Suggests

New Trials Hint That 'Functional Cure' for HIV May Be Within Reach, Helping Some Patients Achieve Lasting Remission

Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes—Including One That's 5,200 Years Old

Mysterious Viking Age Woman Found Buried With Scallop Shells Covering Her Mouth

Will This Newly Approved Crash Test Dummy Make Car Accidents Less Deadly for Women?

A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor

Engineers Say These Ten Holiday Gifts Will 'Make Kids Think'

Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Nearly 12,000 Years of Scientific Records

Fill Your Visual Cornucopia With These 15 Satisfying Photos of Favorite Fall Fruits

This Toddler Was the First Person to Receive a Test Treatment for a Rare Genetic Disorder. Nine Months Later, His Progress Is Inspiring Hope

A.I. Reveals Signs of Early Life in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks. Next, It Could Continue the Search in Space

See the 'Mona Lisa of Illuminated Manuscripts,' a 600-Year-Old Bible Covered in Intricate Illustrations

Dogs Have Been Surprisingly Diverse for More Than 10,000 Years, New Research Suggests

The Ten Best Books About Food of 2025

Listen to a Lion’s Second Type of Roar, Which Was Just Discovered by Scientists

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home, Saved From Demolition Years Ago, Has Now Been Fully Restored

Three Brothers Found a 1939 Copy of 'Superman No. 1' in Their Mother's Attic. It Just Became the Most Expensive Comic Book Ever Sold

These Ancient Log Boats Unearthed in England Were Each Carved From a Single Tree Trunk 3,000 Years Ago

Two College Students Are Building a Robot to Replant Burned Forests

Stunningly Well-Preserved Neanderthal Skull Suggests the Species' Large Noses Weren't Adapted for the Cold

The Ten Best History Books of 2025

This ‘Feisty’ Asian Elephant at the National Zoo Is Pregnant. She May Birth the First Calf Born There in Nearly 25 Years

Birds Are Beeping and Booping like R2-D2. Their Mimicked Sounds Are Helping Unlock the Secrets of Avian Communication

Archaeologists Find Evidence of a Bronze Age City in Kazakhstan

Moss Spores Survived Nine Months Outside the International Space Station. Then, They Grew Normally on Earth

This Shrub Thrives in Death Valley’s Scorching Temperatures. Where Do Its Heat-Tolerant Superpowers Come From?

In Her 70s, Grandma Moses Began Painting Lovely Scenes of Rural Life. Then She Became an Icon

The Real History Behind 'Hamnet' and the Tragically Short Life of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway's Only Son

The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Seen Was So Rare, It Seemed Impossible. Now, Astrophysicists May Finally Have an Explanation