On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

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In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

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In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

How the remarkable musical transformed a beloved folk tale into a celebratory vision for the future of Black America ...

Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island in 45 hours. Their efforts provide new insights into ...

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