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Beachgoers on St. Simons Island sprang to action on Tuesday.

Georgia Beachgoers Help Save Pod of Stranded Pilot Whales

All but three of the animals that swam too close to shore made it back to the sea alive

Bonding over a shared experience isn’t just a human thing.

New Research

Chimps Bond Over Movies, Just Like Us

After watching video clips together, chimps and bonobos were more sociable than those that watched the movies alone

The researchers' findings don’t necessarily portend Ciomadul’s imminent eruption, but they do suggest it's worth taking a second look at seemingly extinct volcanoes

New Research

Magma Lurks Below This ‘Extinct’ Volcano in Romania

Rocks in the upper crust beneath Ciomadul are, on average, 15 percent molten, with some areas reaching as high as 45 percent

Ice at the Martian pole. The dark spots are pockets of warming under the ice.

Future of Space Exploration

This Material May Make Human Habitation on Mars Possible

Silica aerogel traps heat and allows light in while blocking ultraviolet radiation, making it a good candidate for building human settlements

The Bent Pyramid of Snefru in the Dahshur Necropolis.

Egypt Opens Its ‘Bent Pyramid’ for the First Time in More Than 50 Years

The pyramid may represent an important step in a pharaoh’s quest to build the ‘perfect’ pyramid

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Yosemite Gets Its Historic Place Names Back

A settlement with a former concessions operator means Camp Curry, the Ahwahnee Hotel and other iconic sites can use their original names again

L to R: Preparatory sketch for "Scylla" and 1938 oil painting of "Scylla"

Tate Acquires Archive of Works by Little-Known Surrealist Ithell Colquhoun

The collection, featuring some 5,000 sketches, drawings and commercial artworks, promises to instigate a 're-evaluation of her whole career'

The two divers spent an hour or so swimming alongside the giant barrel jellyfish.

Divers Encounter a Human-Size Jellyfish Off the Coast of England

Barrel jellyfish typically grow to a length of up to 3 feet, but this one measured closer to 5 feet long

Sadie Roberts-Joseph founded the Baton Rouge African-American Museum because she believed "If you don’t know where you came from, it’s hard to know where you’re going”

Sadie Roberts-Joseph, Slain Activist, Showed How Museums Can Raise Up Their Communities

Baton Rouge police described the museum founder, whose death has been ruled a homicide, as a 'tireless advocate of peace'

Researchers previously believed that traces of animal fat left in pottery stemmed from feasts held by Stonehenge's builders.

Did Stonehenge’s Builders Use Lard to Move Its Boulders Into Place?

Animal fat residue found on ceramic vessels suggests the ancient Britons who built the monument greased their wooden sledges with lard

This Street in Wales Is Officially the World’s Steepest

Ffordd Pen Llech, a winding road in the historic town of Harlech, has claimed the Guinness World Record—but not everyone is happy about it

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South Dakota's City of Presidents Unveils Obama Statue

The new life-size bronze depicts the 44th president waving to the crowd and holding his daughter Sasha's hand

New Research

Study Finds Insects Can Experience Chronic Pain

Injured fruit flies still experience nerve pain after healing, a finding that could lead the way to more non-opioid pain medications

Alan Turing Will Be the New Face of Britain’s £50 Note

Persecuted at the end of his life, the British mathematician and code-breaker is now widely admired as a father of computer science

In 2019, 50 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit stands as one of the most significant artifacts in the world.

Apollo at 50: We Choose to Go to the Moon

Neil Armstrong’s Restored Spacesuit Put Back on Display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

The spacesuit, which Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon during Apollo 11, is available for public viewing and as a 3-D model online

Great Blue Heron

Audubon Photography Award Winners Show the Breathtaking Beauty of Wild Birds

The 10th installment of the competition featured two new categories

Future of Space Exploration

First Moon-Forming Disk Detected Swirling Around an Exoplanet

Telescope observations suggest that a cloud of gas and dust around a planet 370 light-years away may be coalescing into planet-sized moons

The perpetrator rips pages in half horizontally

A Literary Vandal Is Ripping Pages Out of Books and Putting Them Back on Shelves

The so-called 'book ripper' has targeted more than 100 volumes at a library and charity bookshop in the English town of Herne Bay

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One of the Largest Subspecies of Giraffes Is Declared Endangered

Once the largest of nine subspecies, Masai giraffe numbers have dropped by an estimated 50 percent in the last 30 years

Nina Simone's childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Is Under Threat. This Campaign Aims to Save It

The National Trust is hoping to preserve the North Carolina house where Simone first learned to play piano

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