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An estimated 80 percent of silent movies with all-black casts are thought to be lost, but a new project is making sure the people who made them aren't
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Giorgio Vasari's "Last Supper" was heavily damaged during Florence's 1966 flood. Conservationists finally figured out how to save it
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The ideology has been used to whitewash slavery’s role in the Civil War for generations
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A legal rumpus has concluded—but have concerns about the author's legacy only just begun?
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100 years ago, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress
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Bumps and potholes are par for the course on more than two-thirds of America’s roads
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Measuring 16 inches long and weighing an ounce, the worm pulled from a Cheshire garden has become a prized specimen at the Natural History Museum
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An old photograph led archaeologists to the long-lost well
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A survey of 3,000 people reveals that the most common earworms share a fast tempo, unusual intervals and simple rhythm
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A mysterious sound has baffled residents of a far-flung hamlet
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A fundraising effort looks to make remnants of the city's tragic shootings available for future generations
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<i>KindredSpaces</i> brings together kindred spirits interested in the life and legacy of Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Fingerprints, wear marks and other details show the beautiful manuscript was once a teaching tool, not a royal collectible
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Over four decades of TV broadcasting, “Uncle Walter” defined a nation’s news
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The recurring explosions of white dwarf stars produce the vast majority of this important element
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Here are 10 ways life was different in 1908
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Caught by ESO's Very Large Telescope, the ten pillars of gas and dust are a hazy star nursery 7,500 light years away
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Excavations at a rock shelter in the Flinders Range shows people were there 49,000 years ago, hunting megafauna and developing new tools
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The short video was tricky to shoot
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