Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created ...

Director Elegance Bratton juxtaposes many elements, from interviews to reenactments, to inventively tell the origin story of ...

A new exhibition explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in modern society and how its origins were connected to ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight blazes.

In his new autobiography, the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his origins, and about how, in eighth grade, he discovered BASIC, which introduced him to the elegance and exacting demands ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Uh-oh, it sounds like Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and Lala’s (Mariel Molino) investigation in the next NCIS: Origins episode is going to lead them down a potentially dangerous path. In the February 3 ...