Investigators pulled a 1960s Buick sedan from the waterway in central Minnesota that provides new details about a man’s ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

Scientists observed a family of four spectral bats in their roost in a tree in Costa Rica, capturing an inside look at their ...

When the new Cotoni-Coast Dairies national monument opened to the public on August 16, the 5,800-acre property officially ...

The toolmakers or their ancestors might have arrived on Sulawesi by clinging to vegetation during a storm, but their identities remain a mystery ...

Both Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd ate corn bread as children. He ate it from necessity; she ate it from tradition. The circumstances of their childhoods produced very different recipes. As adults, ...

VISITING What to know: The museum is open seven days a week, except Dec. 25, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, and passes are not required. For more information, go to ...

The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...

A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book from southern England's Buckland Abbey ...

Collectors have a rare opportunity to bid on the remains of the fearsome creature, a large canid that went extinct around the end of the last ice age ...

Researchers have digitized all four volumes, which are now available online. The autobiographies offer a compelling window ...

Emily Barske Wood is an Iowa-based journalist. She works part-time as the special projects editor for the Des Moines Business Record, and her work has been published by the Guardian, the Poynter ...