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This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

How the Easy-Bake Oven, an Appliance That Allowed Kids to Heat Treats With a Light Bulb, Revolutionized the Toy Industry

Feeling More Hate Than Love This Valentine's Day? Send Snarky 'Vinegar Valentines' to Your Enemies Like the Victorians Did

The Tragedy of the Alps’ Disappearing Glaciers for Those Who Live, Visit and Ski There

Ice Fishermen Catch Record-Breaking 244-Pound Atlantic Halibut After Hours-Long Struggle

Have We Reached the Final Days of the Mass-Market Paperback?

A Gray Wolf Visited Los Angeles County for the First Time in a Century, Marking a Major Milestone in the Species' Recovery

The U.S.'s Only Particle Collider Recreated Moments From the Early Universe. Now, It Has Closed—to Make Way for a New Instrument

An Asteroid Ended the Age of the Dinosaurs. But How Did Their Reign Begin? Mysterious Early Reptiles May Hold the Answer

Archaeologists Say They've Identified Traces of a 2,000-Year-Old Love Note Still Etched Into a Wall in Ancient Pompeii

Your Daily Coffee Might Be Protecting Your Brain From Dementia, a New Study Suggests

You Can Stay in Catherine Earnshaw's Bright Pink Bedroom, Straight Out of the New 'Wuthering Heights' Movie

Jewel Thieves Dropped This Crushed Crown as They Fled the Louvre. Now, the Historic Headdress Will Be Restored to Its Former Glory

When Human Activity Dropped During Covid-19, Methane Emissions Surprisingly Spiked. Now, a Study Points to Two Reasons Why

This Scientist Brewed and Drank His Own 'Vaccine Beer' to Combat a Dangerous Virus. It Seems to Have Worked

How a Little-Known French Region Safeguarded the Louvre's Treasures During World War II

Masked Thieves Steal Statue of British Boxer Teddy Baldock From a London Park, Leaving Only His Boots Behind

Testing Menstrual Blood for HPV Might Provide a Less Invasive Way to Screen for Cervical Cancer, a New Study Suggests

A White Historian Claimed That Black People 'Had No History.' This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise

These Parasitic Beetles Mimic the Smell of Flowers So They Can Trick Bees and Raid Their Nests, New Research Suggests

Physicists Create Homemade Cosmic Dust, Which Could Help Them Figure Out How the Building Blocks of Life First Reached Earth

Rumors Suggested That Anne Boleyn Was a Witch With Six Fingers. Did This Elizabethan Artist Rework a Portrait of the Tudor Queen to Debunk the Gossip?

This Carved, Painted Zapotec Tomb Is Mexico's Most Important Archaeological Discovery in a Decade

The National Gallery of Art Acquires 17th-Century Masterpiece by Baroque Painter Artemisia Gentileschi

These Lazy Bats Are Super-Efficient Killers That Carefully Conserve Energy to Attack at a Moment's Notice

An Asteroid Might Slam Into the Moon in 2032—and Create a Fiery Flash That's Visible to Earthlings, New Research Suggests

One Was a Teenage Diplomat. Another Was a Nuclear Engineer. Here's How Eight Presidents Made Their Mark Outside of the White House