In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry English colonists. The story of these captive Africans has set the stage for ...
A crow named Icarus uses a short tool to extract a long tool, which he then uses to fish out a piece of meat.
The Netherlands has had success with the Bubble Barrier, which pumps air bubbles from the bottom of a canal or river to ...
The settlement, founded by an early Christian saint in the 500s, is "far more than a small island church." It may have played ...
"Wetland" is the latest installation of a high-tech traveling exhibition designed by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen. It ...
Archaeologists in Egypt discovered the signet ring while conducting excavations on the island of Antirhodos, which once ...
Hamilton popularized the term "software engineer" and created computer programs that could anticipate problems. She received ...
Jonathan, an Aldabra giant tortoise, is about 194 years old and the oldest land animal alive today. Discoveries about his ...
The specimen was long mislabeled, according to a new study. Paleontologists identified it as a previously undescribed genus ...
When Pillay learned she had won the award, she was in the same courtroom where the Nuremberg Trials held Nazi war criminals ...
Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) are delighted to announce the birth of five ...
No official cause of her pneumonia has been confirmed, and Russian health officials say that none of the deceased ...