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Zagreb’s Backyard Wilderness Is Calling—Here’s How to Experience It

How Much Can a Giant Waterlily Hold? See One Carry 183 Pounds Before Sinking, Winning a Social Media Contest

The Gun Linked to Emmett Till's Murder Is Now on Display at a Museum in Mississippi

Researchers Create Rechargeable, Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents

America's Largest-Ever Exhibition on Raphael Will Open at the Met Next Year

Astronomers Spot a Rare Quadruple Star System in the Milky Way, Shedding Light on Mysterious Brown Dwarfs

Oldest Known Fossil of an Armored Ankylosaur Is 'Far Weirder' Than Paleontologists Expected

A Veteran Pixar Animator’s Newest Book Is an Epic Undertaking That Began 5,000 Years Ago

This Christian Cross Found in Abu Dhabi Illuminates the Lives of Monks Who Lived 1,400 Years Ago

The Japanese City Known for Making Knives That Are a Cut Above

An Orangutan Sanctuary in Borneo Is Giving the Endangered Primates a Second Chance, Just When They Need It Most

Elusive Sailback Houndshark Rediscovered in Papua New Guinea After 50 Years

Sharks' Teeth Could Suffer Damage as Ocean Acidification Intensifies, Study Suggests

How a Spontaneous Food Fight Became La Tomatina, Spain's Annual Tomato-Throwing Festival

Where Did the Big Bang Happen? And More Questions From Our Readers

Telescopes Reveal Surprising Chemistry of a Rare Interstellar Object Passing Through Our Solar System

She Spent Three Weeks Digging for a Diamond for Her Engagement Ring—and Unearthed a 2.3-Carat Stunner

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

Early Humans Moved Stones Long Distances to Make Tools 600,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

Archaeologists Are Digging Up Scotland's Very First Outdoor Skatepark

This Is What Our Thumbs Say About Our Brains, in a Pattern That Holds True for Other Primates

Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Many of Us Are Still Missing All That We Lost—and Grappling With One of the Country’s Worst Disasters

Seasonal Waves Could Reach Some of Easter Island's Massive Moai Statues by 2080, New Study Suggests

See the Rare 'Electric Blue' Lobster Found Off the Coast of Massachusetts

A Man Noticed a Strange Shape on Satellite Images. It Turned Out to Be a 138-Year-Old Shipwreck in Lake Michigan

Want to See the Original Lyrics for 'Over the Rainbow'? All You Need Is a Library Card

The Return of Plundered Belongings Offers a Chance for Healing to a Grieving Lakota Community 170 Years After a Long-Forgotten Massacre

Last Known Surviving American Ace Pilot From World War II Dies at 103

Migratory Flamingos Age Differently From Resident Ones, Offering a New Clue About Getting Old

Researchers Develop a 'Superfood' for Honeybees to Fight the Drastic Decline of Their Colonies

Ancient Statues Emerge From the Waters Off Egypt's Coast, Where They'd Been Hiding for Thousands of Years

Astronomers Spot the Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Detected and Observe Stars Around Its Origin for the First Time

Reading for Pleasure Has Declined by a 'Deeply Concerning' 40 Percent Over the Past Two Decades

Strongheart the German Shepherd Catapulted to Fame for His Heroics in Silent Films. Later, Spiritualist Writings Immortalized Him in Death

French Official Rules That 1,000-Year-Old Bayeux Tapestry Isn't Too Fragile to Travel to London

World's Tallest Douglas Fir Tree Damaged in Mysterious, Multi-Day Blaze, but It's Alive After Firefighters Extinguish Flames

College Sophomore Discovers New Origami Pattern That Could Be Used to Build Telescopes and Satellites

A Neolithic Cow's Tooth Helps Point to the Mysterious Origins of Stonehenge's Iconic Stones

To Save This Historic Church, Workers Loaded It Onto Trailers and Rolled It Across Town. See How They Pulled It Off

A Unique Supernova 'Dazzled' Astronomers and Revealed the Inner Layers of Stars

Why Is Tetepare the South Pacific’s Largest Uninhabited Island?

These Lizards Have So Much Lead in Their Blood, They Should Be Dead. Instead, They're Thriving

This 102-Year-Old Man Just Became the Oldest Person on Record to Summit Japan's Mount Fuji

Light Pollution Is Making Days Longer for Birds, Extending the Hours When They'll Sing

Watch as Experts Preserve a 249-Year-Old Gunboat That Sank During the American Revolution

A Sweeping Transformation Is Underway as the Grand Egyptian Museum Prepares to Officially Open and the Giza Plateau Braces for a Record-Breaking Influx of Visitors

Archaeologists Are Investigating an Ancient Mosaic Depicting Sandals That Look Strangely Like Modern Flip-Flops

To Protest British Taxes, Men Dumped Tea Into Boston Harbor. With the Edenton Tea Party, Colonial Women Took a Different Approach

Get a Glimpse of Farm Life All Around the World

Two Friends Went Fishing on the Mississippi River. Police Say They May Have Just Solved a 1967 Cold Case