The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to cra ...

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire fly down a residential street in Altadena, California, on January 8. Robyn ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...

As part of a massive renovation, the Leonardo da Vinci portrait will get its own gallery space accessible from a separate ...

Thousands of years later, each lunar year is still said to possess certain characteristics of its animal namesake, and those ...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria ...

Forensic Science on Trial is currently on view in the museum's Albert H. Small Documents Gallery, located in the east wing of ...