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Could These 400,000-Year-Old Rock Fragments Be the Oldest Known Evidence of Human Fire-Making?

Watch These Orcas Follow Dolphins to Snag a Salmon Feast. It Might Be the First Evidence of These Species Working Together

Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Controversial New Stained-Glass Window Designs Go on Display

Before the First Brilliantly Colored Flowers Bloomed, Dinosaur-Era Plants Emitted Heat to Attract Pollinators

More Than 2,000 Golden Retrievers Gather in an Argentina Park in an Attempt to Break a World Record

The Bible’s Star of Bethlehem May Have Been a Comet, Analysis of Ancient Records Suggests

This Painting Introduced the World to 'Star Wars.' It Just Became the Most Expensive Item Connected to the Franchise Ever Sold at Auction

See 14 of the National Zoo's Most Adorable Giant Panda Photos From 2025

This Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete

Nearly Complete Skull of a Dome-Headed Dinosaur Makes Its Way to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Francis Ford Coppola Sells Luxury Watches for Millions Following Losses From 'Megalopolis'

Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Pleasure Boat That May Have Once Made Luxurious Voyages Along the Nile

Bees Are Turning the Sticky-Sweet Secretions of Spotted Lanternflies Into Honey—and Some People Love the Smoky-Smelling Stuff

Astrophysicists Found an Abundance of Odd Elements Essential for Life in the Leftovers of an Exploded Star

Stream the Beautiful Highs and Violent Lows of Albatross Life With This New 24-Hour Camera on Midway Atoll

Modern Humans Reached Australia Around 60,000 Years Ago via Two Routes, Genetic Analysis Suggests

The Year's Best and Brightest Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend. Here's How to Watch the Radiant Geminids

You Can Now See 750-Year-Old Artifacts Recovered From England's Oldest Shipwreck

A Deadly Pathogen Decimated Sunflower Sea Stars. Look Inside the Lab Working to Bring Them Back by Freezing and Thawing Their Larvae

Historians Say This Rare Mosaic Found on a British Farm Depicts Scenes From a Long-Lost Account of the Trojan War

This Site in Bolivia Boasts 16,600 Exposed Dinosaur Footprints—The Most Ever Found in One Location

Can GLP-1s Help Fat Cats Lose Weight? The First Clinical Trial Testing the Drugs for Weight Loss in Felines Has Begun

Sixty Years Ago, When Instruments Were Played in Space for the First Time, It Was ‘Jingle Bells’ All the Way

Gas Stoves Are Poisoning Americans by Releasing Toxic Fumes Associated With Asthma and Lung Cancer

The Era of the New York City MetroCard Is Almost Over. Say Goodbye to the Iconic Yellow Passes With a New Exhibition

How a Near-Shipwreck on a Luxury Ocean Liner Inspired 'The Poseidon Adventure' and a Decade of Disaster Movies

A Scenic Road Winding Through Theodore Roosevelt National Park Finally Reopens After Six Years

This Stunning Image Shows a Skydiver Falling Across the Face of the Sun. Here’s How the Team Captured the Mesmerizing Photo

Can Chatting With an A.I. Bot Shift Our Political Beliefs?

Two Armed Thieves Stole Eight Matisse Prints From a São Paulo Library

Deep-Sea Mining Test in the Pacific Drastically Reduced Biodiversity and Animal Populations

Archaeologists Are Unraveling the Mysteries Behind Deep Pits Found Near Stonehenge

The Ten Best Books About Travel of 2025

A Trove of Sea Cow Fossils in Qatar Reveals a New Species That Munched on Seagrass 21 Million Years Ago

What's Killing These Oak Trees in the Midwest? Conservationists Believe Drifting Herbicides Are to Blame

This Painting of a Doomed Duke Just Became the Priciest Elizabethan Portrait Ever Auctioned, Selling for $4.2 Million

The Best Books of 2025

The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025

Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' Was Initially Rejected by a Publisher. It Later Became One of the World's Most Beloved Novels

For More Than 250 Million Years, Coral Reefs Have Had a Major Influence on Earth's Changing Climate

'Murder Hornets' Might Strike Terror in Humans, but These Frogs Can Eat Them for Lunch

When a Humpback Whale Got Stranded in Oregon, a Native Community Turned the Tragedy Into a Revival of a Traditional Practice

This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Roman Olive Oil Production Facilities in North Africa

A Volcanic Eruption in 1345 May Have Triggered a Chain of Events That Brought the Black Death to Europe

From Crushed Sugar Cubes to Exploded Ceramics, This Universal Law Predicts How Most Objects Will Shatter

When Will Robots Take Over Laundry Folding?

Pantone's Color of the Year for 2026 Is a 'Blank Canvas' Called Cloud Dancer—or, in Other Words, White

Weeks After a Brazen Heist, the Louvre Increases Ticket Prices for Non-E.U. Visitors by 45 Percent

Inspired by Bird Feathers, This New 'Ultrablack' Fabric Absorbs Nearly All the Light That Hits It