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Did Women and Children Collaborate With Male Artisans to Create China's Terra-Cotta Army? Fingerprints Left on the 2,000-Year-Old Clay Warriors May Hold the Answer

Some Monkeys Seem to Become Germophobic After Living Through a Disease Outbreak, Just Like Humans

Hundreds of Baby Whales Have Died in Argentina This Year—and Scientists Are Scrambling to Understand Why

In NASA's Plan for Artemis 3, SpaceX and Blue Origin Will Compete to Have Their Landers Take Humans Back to the Moon's Surface

Romans Made Color-Changing Glass With Ancient Nanotechnology. Scientists Just Discovered How to Replicate the 1,600-Year-Old Marvel

How Astronomers and Art Historians Are Working Together to Identify the Inspiration Behind Famous Works of Art

Ben Franklin Wasn’t Serious When He Implied the Wild Turkey Would Be a ‘Respectable’ National Symbol … but He Wasn’t Wrong, Either

Looted by Nazis and Recently Restituted, a Kaleidoscopic Kandinsky Painting Just Sold for Nearly $42 Million

Specialists Removed Three Thrilling, Century-Old Murals From the Walls of a French Monastery. Beneath, They Made 'a Discovery for the History of Art'

Divers Recover a Mysterious Cauldron That Had Been Hiding at the Bottom of an English River for Hundreds of Years

This 11-Foot-Wide, Bowl-Shaped Object Was Found in a Minnesota Cornfield. Experts Suspect It's a Stray Rocket Part

The United Kingdom Is Launching Giant Claws Into Orbit to Clean Up Space Junk. You Can Help Name the First-of-Its-Kind Mission

Two Thousand Years Ago, a New Ice Age Began—but Human-Caused Climate Change Recently Reversed It, According to New Research

An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and, With Nothing to Lose, Planted Them. The Result Was Almost Biblical

How Do Sea Creatures Survive the Intense Pressure of Living Deep in the Water? And More Questions From Our Readers

See the Sweeping Dune Walls and 125-Foot Bas-Relief Sculpture at the National Mall's Newest Memorial, Dedicated to Veterans of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm

Bats Thrive in a Messy, Noisy World. These Four Discoveries Reveal How They Can Listen and Chatter Through the Din

Bison Used to Roam Eastern Europe Before They Neared Extinction. Now Researchers in Poland Want to Create a Suitable Home Where They Can Thrive

A Fire Ravaged the 'Eagle's Nest,' an Alpine Retreat Built for Top Nazis. What Happens Next?

Shamonda Virus Infected and Killed a Person for the First Time. Here's What to Know About the Pathogen Usually Found in Livestock

Art Museums in Milwaukee and Tampa Bay Are Betting That Their Hometown Baseball Teams Will Win the World Series. The Wager? Monet Paintings

Two Years After World War II Ended, This Ship Brought the Bodies of 6,251 Fallen Service Members Back Home to America

Most of the World's Shallow-Water Coral Reefs Have Been Deemed Critically Endangered, Meaning They Could Collapse Within 50 Years

Scientists Estimate That Europe's Scorching Summer Heat Killed More Than 50,000 People in Urban Areas

Rule Breaking Is Contagious. Just a Few Extreme Troublemakers Can Turn a Whole Group Into Rebels, Study Suggests

This Massive, 'Mega-Rare' Monet Painting Is Now the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at Auction in France

A Soldier in Vietnam Recorded His Letter Home Because He Thought It Was Easier Than Writing. It’s a 43-Minute Splice of History

Archaeologists at This Ancient Maya Metropolis in the Forest of Belize Are Debunking Long-Held Myths About the Mesoamerican Civilization

Listening Differently: How One Orchestra Is Reimagining the Concert Experience

A Team of Astronomers Thinks They Have Identified the Exact Night Sky That Inspired Vincent van Gogh's 'Starry Night.' Not Everyone Is Convinced

For the First Time, Scientists Trapped an Elusive Antimatter Particle—and Contained It for Months. It Could Allow Them to Test an Enduring Physics Theory

Immerse Yourself in the Cosmos at Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Planetarium, Recently Restored to Its Former Glory in Florida

Astronomers Detect the Oldest Known Fast Radio Burst, Spewed From an Ancient Galaxy Just Three Billion Years After the Big Bang

'Wildwood' Is the Longest Stop-Motion Animated Film Ever. Each Frame of the Movie Is a Marvel of Handcrafted World Building

These Big, Fierce Birds Found Love in Australia—and Laid the First Southern Cassowary Eggs at the Adelaide Zoo in 34 Years

These 15 Photos Perfectly Capture the Beautiful Red Rocks of Sedona, Arizona

In a Hoard of 5,500 Viking Age Coins, Archaeologists in Norway Found One So Rare That They Already Consider It a 'National Treasure'

Ivan the Terrible Wanted to Marry Elizabeth I. How Did England's 'Virgin Queen' Reject the Russian Czar Without Souring Trade Relations?

This Mysterious Medieval Manuscript Has Stumped Scholars for Well Over a Century. Could Its Pages Have Been Bound Out of Order This Whole Time?

One in Four Cases of Depression Could Be Caused by a Dysregulated Body Clock, Study Says

Researchers Claimed a Blurry Object on Apple Maps Was 'Very Likely' Amelia Earhart's Missing Plane. It Turned Out to Be a 'Collection of Large Trees'

The Canadian Artist Jean Paul Riopelle Was 'Completely Absorbed by the Act of Painting.' His Abstract Works Finally Have Their Own Home in a Quebec Museum

More Than 1,000 Birds Were Killed or Injured in Window Collisions Around Chicago Over the Weekend

Arizona's Otherworldly 'Wonderland of Rocks' Is Now America's Newest National Park

'Pretty Boy' Floyd, One of the Most Notorious Outlaws of the Great Depression, Was Shot and Killed in an FBI Raid 92 Years Ago

Archaeologists May Have Solved the Mystery of a Roman Sarcophagus Excavated at Westminster Abbey in 1869

Green Sea Turtles Are Making a Remarkable Comeback on the Remote Aldabra Atoll and Around the World. But Their Recovery Is Far From Complete

African Elephants Shape the Savanna Ecosystem—and Continue Doing So Long After They've Died, Study Suggests

Shanghai's 'Audacious' New Opera House Just Opened Its Doors—and a Gravity-Defying Staircase—to the Public

Where Exactly Were the First Humans to Be Captured in a Photograph Standing? Three Obsessed Filmmakers Solved the Nearly 200-Year-Old Mystery