The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

A company called BlueGreen Water Technologies aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while also fighting algae’s ...

In places like Colorado and Minnesota, international teams of talented snow artists are creating larger-than-life ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Using ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners, researchers identified subterranean structures just a few feet below the ...