On this day in 1542, the Battle of Solway Moss left James V enfeebled and ill, clearing the way for his young daughter, Mary, ...

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...

Makenzie Van Eyk wrote the letter as part of a class project in 1998, when she was in fourth grade. Recently, the note was ...

Scientists say just 200 grams of the material could capture 44 pounds of the greenhouse gas per year—the same as a large tree ...

Despite only weighing as much as a AA battery, these birds have charisma to spare and are amazing avian acrobats. Nearly 60 ...

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing ...

Obesity leads to DNA alterations that affect gene activity and linger after weight loss, a finding that researchers say could ...

Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he'd put on some weight and regained his strength ...

Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea ...

The insects participate in elaborate courtships, are devoted parents, occasionally eat each other and have a gregarious ...