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A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Wildlife officials say quick thinking by construction workers helped lead to the bear’s capture.

Tara Dower became the fastest person ever to complete the Appalachian Trail. Her record - 40 days, 18 hours and 6 minutes - ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...

A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s will receive a jazz funeral.

Scientists are uncovering the extraordinary sensory worlds animals experience, realms of light, energy, and movement that ...

Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes she is a descendant ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

The orphaned cub was about two months old when he was found April 12 in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest — ...