What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Mark your calendar for the Mother Tongue Film Festival and events covering everything from odd oceanic couples to resilient ...

Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a dark and melancholic tone ...