Designed to keep prices low and conserve wax paper, the ban, enacted on this day in 1943, only succeeded in making Americans ...
Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch ...
The Super Heavy booster, meanwhile, was successfully caught in the launch tower's mechanical arms for only the second time ...
The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...
The space rock—recorded with visuals and sound—landed where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier ...
The well-preserved thermal bath complex was unearthed at a lavish home likely owned by a member of the ancient city's elite ...
Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and ...
On a journey to six cities across the country over the course of seven years, a photographer captured images of the roads ...
In recent days, however, the region’s powerful Santa Ana winds—which have been fanning the flames—have begun to slow down.
Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...
A team trekked for two weeks and collected the sounds of birds, frogs, a jaguar and whales in order to make the song ...
On the evening of January 17, 1950, thieves entered the building of the Brink’s security company in Boston’s North End. They ...