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

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 ...

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Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

The quintessential superhero has always stood for truth and justice, but the final part of his catchphrase has morphed to ...

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A new study finds that entering N2 sleep—a deep phase of non-rapid eye movement sleep—may help lead to more “eureka” ...

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

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

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...