Volcanic eruptions, climate change, crop failures, famine and plague all may have swept through Norway in the sixth century C ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...

What an early example of a dental bridge reveals about health, wealth and social values in the late medieval and early modern ...

New research has identified four members of the doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage, including the owner of a ...

These Army facilities, both active and decomissioned, show the breadth of ways they reflect the fabric of the nation ...

While the success of Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett’s polar flight has been disputed, the former went on to accomplish ...

Munching on the wrong items can lead to illness, but social learning might help the birds avoid making a potentially deadly ...

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches ar ...

The humanoid promised to obey humans, save energy and treat other robots peacefully. South Korean Buddhist leaders have ...

The original plan for Hammarby Sjöstad was for an eco-village aimed at attracting the Olympics. They never came, but the ...

In 1731, book lover Franklin created the Library Company of Philadelphia, where this week visitors can see a collection of ...