A new, “mind-blowing” discovery reveals evidence that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei stepped at the same site within ...

While Neanderthals have been found to create glue-like substances with other materials, this finding, if confirmed, would be ...

The term refers to "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state" that's linked to spending ...

At an exhibition in England, curators have placed artworks alongside diffusers that dispense carefully crafted fragrances, ...

Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...

In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of ...

Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on ...

Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...

A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...

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Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...