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See Ten Gorgeous Photographs of Lions and Discover What Makes the Majestic Felines Special

Did the Dwarf Planet Ceres Once Host Life? Astronomers Suggest Chemical Energy Could Have Fueled Microbes Long Ago

Christie's Helped Drive the Art World's NFT Craze. Now, the Auction House Is Shutting Down Its Digital Art Division

Africa's Oldest Mummy Is a Toddler Who Died 5,400 Years Ago, Nearly a Millennium Before the Egyptians Started Mummifying Their Dead

Joseph McNeil, Member of 'Greensboro Four' Who Protested Segregation at Lunch Counters, Dies at 83

These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species

Scientists Investigate the Bacteria That Colonized Extinct Mammoths—and Uncover the Oldest Known Microbial DNA From a Host

Sweden Releases an Official Cultural Canon That Features IKEA and 'Pippi Longstocking'—but Not ABBA

Man Who Tried to Smuggle 600 Looted Ancient Egyptian Artifacts in Three Checked Suitcases Is Going to Prison

Five Dramatic Ways Animals Respond to Human Noise, From Mimicking Car Alarms While Wooing Mates to Calling Higher Over the Din of Traffic

Fallingwater's Roof Is Leaking. Can This $7 Million Renovation Protect Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece?

Wildfire Sweeps Through Historic California Gold Rush Town Settled by Chinese Miners

Explore 15 Captivating, Cool and Classic Castles

Solar Flares May Be Way Hotter Than Researchers Previously Thought

See When Fabulous Fall Foliage Will Peak in Your State With This Interactive Map

The Tiny New York Town Where Mediums Give Voice to the Dead

Could Aardvark Burrows Be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic?

Journalists Stumble Across Real Estate Listing With a Photo of a Nazi-Looted Painting Hanging Above the Couch

Early Penguins Had Long, Dagger-Like Beaks for Skewering Fish, New Zealand Fossils Reveal

Did Vermeer Make a Copy of His Own Painting? A New Exhibition Invites You to Be the Judge

Bees Manage to Build the Best Honeycombs, Even on Imperfect Foundations

From Fashion to Fidget Spinners, This London Exhibition Celebrates Disabled Design, Innovation and Joy

These Bumpy Little Seahorses Are Amazing Camouflage Artists. Scientists Pinpoint the Gene Loss Behind Their Special Traits

Why European Royals, From Henry VIII to Louis X, Loved Playing 'Real Tennis,' the So-Called Sport of Kings

The Colorful, Scandalous, True History of the Machine That Created American Pop

How a Deaf Quarterback Changed Sports Forever By Inventing the Huddle

Frank Kameny Helped Chart a Path to Liberation for Millions of Gay Americans

Could These 80,000-Year-Old Stones Be the World's Earliest Known Arrowheads?

Two Sniffer Dogs Might Have Just Found a Lost Population of Critically Endangered Rhinos

Restoring Bison to Yellowstone Has 'Reawakened' the Ecosystem as the Large Animals Migrate, Study Suggests

Florida's Only Private Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Is Officially on the Market

When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln

Four Famous American Women Who Were Also Prolific Letter Writers

A New Exhibit in Toronto Reexamines the Works of the Baroque Masters

See Thomas Jefferson's Handwritten Copy of the Declaration of Independence

From Dinosaur Scratches to Insects in Amber, How Paleontologists Uncover Prehistoric Courtship

Readers Respond to the July/August 2025 Issue

These Photos of Harvesting Cranberries Transform the Annual Ritual Into a Shimmering Spectacle

The Underappreciated True Story of the Brash Prussian Military Officer Who Whipped the Patriots Into Shape at Valley Forge

Scientists Discover Key Evolutionary Changes to the Pelvis That Helped Humans Walk Upright

Banksy Transformed This Police Box Into a Piranha Tank. Soon, the Artwork Will Go on Permanent Display in London

The New Science of Aeroecology Reveals So Much About the Amazing Creatures That Populate the Skies and How Humans Can Ensure Their Survival

See the Stunning Butterfly Nebula in a New Image From the James Webb Space Telescope

The First Magazines Written for Career Women Reveal a Portrait of Immense Creativity and Hope

A Batch of Undelivered WWII Letters Intended for Japanese Soldiers Ended Up in an Oregon Museum Decades Later. Now, Experts Are Returning the Lost Correspondence to Their Families

She Found a Tattered Logbook in the Trash. It Turned Out to Be a Rare Record From the 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack

From Flower Markets and Colonial Forts to Shrines and Battlefields, Take a Journey Into the Heart of India

Shipwreck Hunter Finds Large Freighter That Sank in Lake Huron During the 'White Hurricane' 112 Years Ago

The Founding Father Who Lost a Leg, Romanced Married and Single Women Alike, and Escaped the Bloodshed of the French Revolution