Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The black and slightly orange Bigg’s killer whale was spotted swimming with its mother, Sedna, in the Salish Sea ...

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The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

A new project called Digital Delacroix is training cutting-edge technology on the French painter's style to unravel the lost ...

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A group of five adolescent male lions - dubbed the Musketeers - are wandering the desert looking to find their own kingdom. They come across a lioness, but not all … A Clever Cuttlefish Goes in for ...

Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

The January issue featured a story about the village in Sardinia where my paternal grandfather was born (“ Rites of Winter ,” ...

The story of this living monument begins with Charles Weeghman, a classic Chicago striver who could have stepped out of the ...

Developed by a physicist, these bats have their widest part, called the barrel, closer to the player's hands to offer a ...