The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...
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Researchers tracking female bats in central Europe found they migrated much farther in a single night than previously thought ...
People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...
Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch report Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Experts are concerned that artifacts ...
The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...
Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...
DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
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Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have uncovered an ...
After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...