A 5,000-year-old burial site near Kenya’s Lake Turkana likely served as a bonding place for a culture in flux
The formerly enslaved South Carolinian declared that whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans, but few took the explosive claim seriously—until now
A new Stanford-designed technology pairs Google Glass with a face-identifying AI app that tells wearers what emotions they're seeing
The appeal of the mythical, wild man holds strong
At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers
See if you can figure out how the American code-breakers unraveled the complexities of the Russian codebook
The National Portrait Gallery showcases a celebrated conductor as portrayed by the master French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
A group of orphaned lion cubs are facing an uncertain future
Scientists enlisted enzymes produced by gut bacteria to turn blood into type O
The English privateer arrived on the Carolina coast after sacking Spanish lands in the Caribbean, but who, if anyone, did he leave behind?
James Lendemer is one of the few people taking stock of one of the world’s most peculiar lifeforms
As the National Portrait Gallery turns 50, it is asking how well its collections represent the people—and where there is room for improvement
Researchers have developed a new method for recycling greasy sewer blockages into green fuel
These horny buggers are actually here to help us fight the spread of disease
On December 16, 1941, the Italian navy launched a daring attack on three British ships outside Alexandria harbor
Scientists look to the Norwegian archipelago's fast-moving glaciers to better understand how other accelerating glaciers will behave
A local NGO is working with farmers and craft makers to develop new cultural tourism offerings in Armenia's scenic Gegharkunik region
First found only on the sun, scientists doubted the mysterious element even existed for more than a decade
In 1935, an old wooden boat was found in a lake in upstate New York. It was the USS Philadelphia - the oldest U.S. gunboat ever recovered
Originally marketed as sportswear, the tube sock became a stylish accessory thanks to Farrah Fawcett and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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