The team believes it has identified the rightful artist behind ‘Mrs. Thomas Pelham,’ a nearly life-size portrait depicting an 18th-century aristocrat
The 16mm film depicts the first couple picnicking, boating, and socializing with their friends, family and advisors
A new technique was able to pull tuberculosis bacteria and morphine residue from a letter the author sent in 1938, ten years befor his diagnosis
There has not been a case of the disease in Townsville for four years after the release of insects carrying a naturally occurring bacteria
Researchers measured the brain sizes of 11,554 birds, including representatives of 110 island-dwelling species and 1,821 continental species
Peter Scholze, Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli and Akshay Venkatesh named recipients of award often described as the Nobel Prize for mathematics
Temperatures averaged a blistering 108.1 degrees Fahrenheit for the month of July
Researchers say there is less than a one in 50 chance that Paul McCartney composed the melody of "In My Life"
The spinning mass of smoke filmed near Redding, California, is much taller, wider and lasted longer than average fire whirls
Lathering up with orange goo from millipede guts might relieve infections, expel parasites in lemurs
The data shows about 1.5 million acres of forest have been affected by surface and mountaintop mining since the 1970s
The Cerro Esmeralda site, where two human sacrifices were buried, shows traces of cinnabar, a toxic pigment
The library, which was built between 150 and 200 C.E., held an estimated 20,000 ancient scrolls
The Morne du Tamaris Colony on Île aux Cochons has dropped from 2 million to 200,000 birds over 30 years
Collection includes journals, personal correspondence detailing development of Biltmore estate, U.S. Capitol grounds and the Chicago World's Fair
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Some northern quolls do not eat deadly cane toads. New research suggests their aversion is an inherited trait
Researchers and archaeologists have recovered the remains of distinguished flyer Lawrence E. Dickson whose plane crashed during a mission in 1944
The scutoid allows skin cells to remain packed tightly together even over curved surfaces
Skeptics cite possibility of ancient samples’ contamination by contemporary organisms
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