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The British Crown Enslaved Thousands at the Height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. New Research Reveals Their Stories

Strange, Shovel-Tusked Elephants Puzzled Paleontologists, Until Experts Took a Closer Look at Their Teeth

Frida Kahlo's Image Is on Paintings, Posters, Socks and Sanitary Pads. How Did Fridamania Come to Dominate Popular Culture?

Positive Thinking Might Boost Your Immune System's Responses to Vaccines, New Research Suggests

See the Stunning Artworks by the Winners and Featured Artists of This Boundary-Pushing National Portrait Competition

A Smaller Version of the Las Vegas Sphere May Be Coming to the Washington, D.C. Area

The Penguins That Thrive—and the Ones Left Behind—as Antarctica Warms

How Historically Black Schools Create and Preserve Their Own History Through Amazing Artifacts, From Paintings to Marching Band Hats

This Mysterious 407-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Represent a Previously Unknown Branch of Life

Can You See the Faded Outline of a Hand? Archaeologists Say This 67,800-Year-Old Stencil May Be the World's Oldest Known Rock Art

Get an Eyeful of These 15 Photos of Incredibly Cool Icicles

United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'

Rare Twin Mountain Gorillas Born in the Congo, Giving Hope to Those Working to Conserve the Endangered Animals

See How These Wristwatches Reimagine Famous Masterpieces by Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Edgar Degas and Paul Klee

‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Showcases the Minimalist Ingenuity of Shaker Furniture

Archaeologists Say They've Finally Found a Long-Lost Basilica That Matches the Description the Architect Wrote 2,000 Years Ago

This Detachable Robotic Hand Can Scurry Around and Grasp Objects Just Like Thing From the Addams Family

Why Gen Z Is Trading Night Clubs for Japanese-Style Listening Bars

These High-Status Individuals Were Given a 'Princely' Burial Alongside a Fully Harnessed Horse in an Early Medieval Cemetery

Humpback Whales Are Probably Learning How to Catch Prey With Bubble Nets by Watching One Another

Meet 13 People Who Survived on Deserted Islands, From a Real-Life Robinson Crusoe to a Noblewoman Marooned With Her Lover

A Stunning Stretch of California's Rugged Coastline Is Now Open to the Public for the First Time in a Century

Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Bar-Shaped Cloud of Iron Within the Iconic Ring Nebula

These Are the Top Ten Most Anticipated Museums Opening Around the World in 2026

Archaeologists Say They've Detected the Largest Stand-Alone Ancient Roman Villa Ever Unearthed in Wales

A Robot Is Unraveling the Secrets of How Some Bats Bounce Sound Waves Off Leaves to Find Insect Prey

Three Stunning Ways Biologists Aim to Edit Animal and Plant Genes to Fight Diseases and Extinction

This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide

A Sprawling Sculpture Garden Featuring Modern Masterpieces Is Coming to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Oscar Wilde's Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death

Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools

This Dinosaur May Have Used Its Strange Clawed Hands to Pilfer and Pierce Eggs

These Baffling Bone Artifacts Discovered by an Amateur Archaeologist May Be the World's Oldest Whale Harpoons

Ötzi the Iceman May Have Carried a Cancer-Causing Strain of HPV, a Common Virus Still Plaguing Humans Today

'Aha' Moments Seem to Come Out of Nowhere. How Does the Brain Create These Sudden Bursts of Insight?

History Remembered This Black Medal of Honor Recipient for the Two Worst Days of His Life. A New Book Dives Into the Vietnam Vet's Story

You Can See a Swirling Sculpture Made of 8,000 Books at a Library in Prague

The Public Baths of Ancient Pompeii Were Actually Pretty Gross—Until the Romans Built an Aqueduct

Contents of a Wolf Pup’s Stomach From 14,400 Years Ago Are Teaching Researchers About the Lives of the Last Woolly Rhinos

All Nine of Jan van Eyck's Surviving Portraits Are Coming Together for the Very First Time in History

Greenland Sharks Can Survive for Centuries—and Maintain Long-Lasting Vision, Despite Living in the Dark

Who Was the Inspiration Behind the ‘Gibson Girl’ Illustrations? The Artist Said She Was Every Woman

Jupiter's Moon Europa Is a Top Candidate for Hosting Alien Life. But It May Lack the Geologic Activity Needed to Birth Microbes

NASA to Resume Search for Missing Mars Orbiter, But Prospects of Re-establishing Communication With It Seem Slim

Spaceflight Temporarily Changes the Position and Shape of Astronauts' Brains, MRI Data Suggests

New Livestream Tour Takes Tourists Underneath Rome Into Never-Before-Seen ‘House of Griffins’

Could This Portrait of an Elderly Man With a Young Woman's Face Hidden in His Beard Be a Long-Lost Study by Peter Paul Rubens?

Archaeologists Unearth Intricately Decorated Box Carved From Deer Bone That May Have Once Held Ancient Ointments

Queen Bumblebees' Tongues Aren't Built for Slurping Nectar—Which Might Keep the Royals Homebound