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When Did Cooks Start Using Spices? And More Questions From Our Readers

You Can Buy One of History's Rarest Baseball Cards—if You Have Several Million Dollars to Spare

Watch the First-Ever Video Uploaded to YouTube, a Grainy 19-Second Clip Called 'Me at the Zoo'

Ireland Launches Its Permanent ‘Income for the Arts’ Scheme, Becoming the First Government Committed to Paying Artists

This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast's True Nature

Is Autism Really a Male-Dominated Condition? A New Study Suggests Women Have It Just as Often, but Are Diagnosed Later in Life

How Do Researchers Identify Individual Bears in the Wild? They Could Soon Do It Through A.I. Facial Recognition Technology

Intermittent Fasting Might Not Live Up to the Hype When It Comes to Weight Loss, New Research Suggests

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Is Known as the Woman Behind the Suffrage Movement. A New Book Reveals the Story Behind Her Tenacity

A Stay at Ellis Island Hospital Could Determine Whether an Immigrant Had a Chance to Start a New Life in America

The Sahara Desert Hasn’t Always Been a Dry, Desolate Landscape. Some Scientists See Signs It May Be Greening Again

A Man Bought a $13 Camera at a Thrift Shop—and Found 70-Year-Old Film Still Inside. Do You Recognize the Faces in the Photos?

Police Recover Ancient Egyptian Artifacts the Day After a Heist at a Museum in Australia

Couples Have Been Kissing Under the Lovers' Arch in Italy for Years. On Valentine's Day, It Collapsed Into the Sea

Astronomers Discover an Exoplanet in the Wrong Place, Hinting at a Planetary System That Was Born 'Inside Out'

Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday? Here Are Six Reasons Why Washington, D.C. Is the Best Place to Experience It

Like Humans, Baboons Get Jealous of Their Siblings

Why Do Humans Have Chins? They Might Be an Evolutionary Accident, New Research Suggests

This Luxury Steamer Disappeared on a Stormy Night in 1872. Nearly 150 Years to the Day, It Was Found at the Bottom of Lake Michigan

Martha Graham Took Classic Ballet and Turned It Into Modern Dance. It’s Still Moving Us 100 Years Later

After a Devastating Bird Flu Outbreak, Scotland's Seabirds Are Slowly Recovering—and So Are the Scientists Who Witnessed Their Decline

This Helmet Kept an Air Force Pilot Safe as She Was Soaring Through the Glass Ceiling

One of the Allies’ Secret Weapons Against the Nazis Was a 21-Year-Old Woman Armed With a Microphone and a Script of Lies

Get Your Red-Hot History Lesson! How the Hot Dog Rose From Coney Island Carts to Platters at Presidential Picnics

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

Lucian Freud Is Famous for His Unflinching Portraits. These Rarely Seen Drawings Provide an Intimate Window Into His Creative Process

Jesse Jackson Witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination. Here’s How He Carried the Torch for the Civil Rights Movement Into the Future

What Is Skimo? The Newest Olympic Sport Has a Long History in Europe

Archaeologists Unearthed a 2,200-Year-Old Bone. They Say It Could Be the First Direct Evidence of Hannibal's Legendary War Elephants

A Star Suddenly Brightened, Then Faded Into Darkness. Astronomers Say It May Have Turned Into a Black Hole

How Often Do You Fart? This 'Smart Underwear' Can Keep Track, Because Figuring Out a Baseline Is Important for Science

Bird Watchers Flock to Montreal to Catch a Glimpse of Canada's First Known European Robin

These 12,000-Year-Old Scraps of Elk Hide May Be the World's Oldest Known Examples of Sewing

'Yankee Doodle' Was One of America's Earliest Protest Songs. But Its Origins Are Shrouded in Mystery

With an Experiment in Their Basement Photo Lab, Two Brothers Created a Paint That Outshines Them All

When Coyotes Threatened Livestock on Central Texas Ranches, the Solution Was to Unlock an Ancient Ability in Dogs

An Elephant's Trunk Is Covered in Whiskers—and They're Unlike Those on Any Other Animal, a New Study Suggests

These Emily Carr Paintings Will Make You Experience the Beauty of British Columbia's Landscapes in a Completely New Way

Five Things to Know About 'Wuthering Heights,' Author Emily Brontë's Only Novel

Will a Dazzling Display of Wildflowers Spread Across California This Spring?

Earth's Core Might Hold Dozens of Oceans Worth of Hydrogen, Hinting at the Origins of the Planet's Vast Water Supply

Seabird Poop May Have Fueled This Pre-Inca Kingdom's Rise to Power in South America

A Metal Detectorist Unearthed This Heart-Shaped Tudor Pendant. Now, the British Museum Has Raised Millions to Put It on Public Display

Gallop Into the Year of the Horse With These Five Amazing Equine Discoveries

Commemorate Presidents’ Day With 15 Images That Celebrate the Founding Fathers

Why a Marine Ecologist Was Thrilled to See a Critically Endangered Bird Very Far From Home

Archaeology Students Unearth an Early Medieval Burial Pit During a Training Dig in England

A Football-Size Creature That Lived 307 Million Years Ago May Have Been One of the First Land Vertebrates to Eat Plants

You Can Buy a Rare Broadside Copy of the Declaration of Independence From July 1776

A Massive Monkey Research Center Might Turn Into a Primate Sanctuary. Animal Activists Rejoice, While Scientists Worry