We are shaped by our past and cannot escape our personal, familial or societal history. Caitlin Flanagan, whose writing in The Atlantic cuts to the heart of modern life’s most charged topics, has a ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Kennedy, who built a career as an anti-vaccine activist, now leads the Department of Health and Human Services ...

Last year’s Alain Locke Recognition Award recipients were David and Linda Whitaker, art collectors, philanthropists, and ...

A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

It all started in 1938 with just 40 floats, four bands and a bicycle brigade. Now thousands attend the Edison Fest Grand Parade every year.

This eerie roadside attraction in Michigan explores the science and history of death. Its macabre artifacts and exhibits ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

A West Berkeley office and research and development complex with ties to the city’s music history hit the market this month.

Climatologists analyze various natural climate data repositories to understand Earth’s past. Glaciers, sediments, and pollen convene to form a kind of “nature’s archive” from which natural scientists ...