Still in its trial run, the China's FAST radio telescope has already identified two new pulsars and perhaps a dozen more
Alfred Nobel–yes, that Nobel–commercialized it, but inventor Asciano Sobrero thought nitroglycerin was too destructive to be useful
The discovery sheds new light on the painting’s anti-Catholic message
These cookbooks and domestic guides offer historians a window into the experiences and tastes of black Americans in the 1800s
Marcel Nadjari buried his letter hoping it would one day reach his family
The federal government wanted to retain the documents, but survivors said they were promised confidentiality
The museum recently acquired the 1843 daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams at the Sotheby’s photographs auction
The commemorative stamp was issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the guerrilla revolutionary
Without turning over a stone, geologists imaged the subsurface supply for this iconic geyser
The DNA of the durian, it turns out, is very complex and optimized for producing a wretched stench
The kitchen was new, but by all accounts it didn't help the cooking
The '57' doesn't actually refer to <I>anything</i>
More than 100 hippos have been found dead over the past week
After fruitless hunts for a Liberian songbird, DNA analysis suggests that the species is not new
High-resolution video and 3D scanning brings the SS <i>Thistlegorm</i> to armchair archaeologists everywhere
A story of pollution hides in the grime of museums' birds specimens
Radiocarbon dating shows the dugout canoe found in Cocoa, Florida, has a 50 percent chance of being from 1640 to 1680
More than 130 years after it was completed, "Renoir and Friends" returns to the famed painting
Gail Halvorsen's efforts made children happy but they also provided the U.S. military with an opportunity
Small injuries are a commonplace problem, but before the Band-Aid, protecting papercuts and other such wounds was a huge hassle
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