A new study suggests an ancient version of plague most likely spread among family members in hunter-gatherer groups, with ...

New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first ...

For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centred on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. North-west Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of ...

A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York, October 2021. Johnny Milano Former President Thomas Jefferson considered the proposal “little short of madness.” The project ...

The first people to inhabit the Americas had a singular obsession: the biggest animals on the landscape. A July 2026 study in ...

Rugby league began in 1895, as the 'Northern Union', when clubs in the North of England broke away from the RFU. The clubs wanted to compensate their working-class players for time away from work for ...

In 1964, as African nations gained independence, UNESCO brought together leading African and international experts to launch the General History of Africa, a visionary initiative to reframe the ...

At the National Museum of American History one day last July, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high. The Ring King Jr., ...

Download the Nature Briefing Podcast 10 July 2026. In this episode: 00:29 Dolly the sheep’s 30-year legacy. Metro: Dolly the ...

To make good choices, companies must be able to calculate and manage the attendant risks. Today, myriad sophisticated tools can help them do so. But it was only a few hundred years ago that the risk ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Since motion pictures were invented, audiences have loved how they tell stories. Movies enabled people to travel the world vicariously, and experience tragedy, love and nearly every other emotion.