The Florentine Diamond Was Thought to Be Lost to History. It's Actually Been Safely Tucked Away in a Canadian Bank Vault All Along

Meeting Lucy: How a World-First European Exhibition Brought Visitors Face to Face With the Fossil That 'Shrinks Time'

A Fire Ravaged a Historic 200-Year-Old Tavern in Ohio. These Are the Artifacts Archaeologists Found in the Wreckage

How Landlocked Idaho Became a Leader in Urban Surfing

Researchers Have Identified the Names of Five Million Victims Murdered in the Holocaust

This Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered a 151-Million-Year-Old Insect—and It's a New Species

Archaeologists Say They've Found a 3,000-Year-Old Map of the Cosmos at an Ancient Maya Site in Mexico

Dark Moon, Shooting Stars: How to Catch the Stunning Leonid Meteor Shower This Weekend

See Masterpieces by Monet, Matisse, Degas and Picasso in the First-Ever Exhibition of This German Family's Private Art Collection

Scholars Thought This Ancient Silver Goblet Told One Myth for 50 Years. Is It Actually Telling Another Story?

Ken Burns Says His New Documentary Forced Him to Revisit Everything He Thought He Knew About the American Revolution

Downy Woodpeckers 'Grunt' as They Turn Their Bodies Into Hammers to Drill Into Trees

This Newly Discovered ‘Lucifer’ Bee From Australia Was Named After Its Devil-Like Horns

From Collecting Whale Snot to Capturing Surprising Behaviors, Aerial Drones Are Giving Scientists a New View of Sea Life

A Sweeping Yoko Ono Retrospective Aims to Make Music in Museumgoers' Minds

The Sun Erupted With the Year's Largest Solar Flare This Week, and Space Weather-Fueled Aurora Activity Could Continue

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide's Oldest Victims?

Archaeologists Excavating a Roman Fort in Britain Discovered a Rare Red Gemstone Engraved With a Surprising Design

Ancient Rome's Roads Might Have Been Almost Twice as Long as Researchers Previously Thought

Water Temperatures in Amazon Lakes Reached Hot Tub Levels in 2023, Killing Fish and Dolphins

Colorful Snapdragons in the Valleys of the Pyrenees Offer a Rare Window Into How Evolution Happens

A 5,000-Year-Old Canaanite Wine Press Has Been Discovered in Israel

The Universe's Expansion May Be Slowing Down, Not Speeding Up, New Research Suggests

New Daily Pill Could Potentially Be Life-Saving for Americans With High Cholesterol Levels, Researchers Say

The Netherlands Will Return a Looted 3,500-Year-Old Stone Bust to Egypt

Scientists Are Releasing the Lovingly Nicknamed 'Snot Otters' Into Ohio Waterways in a Big Success for Conservation

Researchers Used Space Dust to Build a Timeline of 30,000 Years of Arctic Sea Ice

Nobody Knows What Sank the 'Edmund Fitzgerald.' But Its Doomed Final Voyage Will Always Be America's Defining Shipwreck

One Glacier's 'Out of This World' Retreat Might Have Set a Modern Record. Now, Scientists Pieced Together What Happened

An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants

How Old-Time Fiddle Music Took Root in Indigenous Alaska

Iguanas Are Native, Not Invasive, on This Mexican Island, DNA Study Suggests, Rewriting Conservation Ideas

The Term '67' Is 'Impossible to Define.' It Just Became Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2025

These 15 Gorgeous Photographs Capture the Beautiful Art of Blown and Stained Glass

Lemurs Are Having a Mysterious 'Baby Boom' in Madagascar. Here's Why That Might Not Be a Good Thing

The True Story Behind 'Nuremberg,' a WWII Drama About Hermann Göring's Cat-and-Mouse Game With an American Psychiatrist

Can Visiting an Art Gallery Lower Your Stress Levels and Improve Your Health?

This Massive Web—Home to More Than 100,000 Spiders—Found in a Cave in Europe Could Be the World's Largest

In an Out of This World Observation, a Museum Curator Filmed the Moon Getting Struck by Meteors—Twice

109-Year-Old Messages in a Bottle Written by Soldiers Heading to Fight in World War I Discovered on Australian Beach

Chimpanzees Weigh Evidence to Make a Smart Choice, in a Process Resembling Human Rationality

Another 8-Year-Old Boy Ascends El Capitan, Following in His Brother's Footsteps

Researchers Found Hundreds of Mysterious Dimples on the Seafloor Near Antarctica. Now They Know What Creature Made Them

The ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ Sank Half a Century Ago. We’re Still Fascinated

The Real Story Behind Netflix's 'Death by Lightning' and the Shocking Assassination of President James A. Garfield

Astronomers Detect the Brightest and Most Distant Black Hole Flare Ever Seen

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A Short Walk in the Park Might Slow Cognitive Decline in People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s

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800-Year-Old Tower Partially Collapses Near Rome’s Colosseum, Killing a Worker Trapped Inside

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Researchers Create a New Antivenom That Can Combat Bites From 17 Snake Species, Trials in Mice Suggest

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