The impact crater was formed in 2024 when an object the size of a multistory building crashed into our lunar companion. The ...

Dozens of life-size bison puppets—made this summer with steel, plywood, burlap and paper—will roam the streets of New York City this weekend as part of a free art spectacle that honors both the mammal ...

In the first century B.C.E., Vitruvius wrote that the Acropolis’ largest temple was horizontally bowed so that it didn't seem to sag, and that explanation persisted for millennia. New research suggest ...

A tooth analysis hints that the fearsome predator ran at a toasty 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Maintaining that internal temperature may have allowed it to inhabit a range stretching from modern-day Alaska ...

A new analysis of teeth and parchment suggests that the devastating sheep pox virus has been infecting livestock for 3,700 ...

The new instrument, called TEMPO, captures hourly snapshots of the pollutants swirling in the daytime atmosphere over North America—“chemical weather” reports that are helpful to public health researc ...

Observed last year off the coast of Queensland, Australia, this event marks the first documentation of a stillbirth in the species, providing a rare glimpse at how the highly social animals respond to ...

For millions of years, through the Triassic and the Jurassic that followed, large dinosaurs kept such forests open and sunlit down to their trunks by feeding and trampling on plants. A sunny stand of ...

Much has changed since the publication debuted on September 18, 1851. What hasn't changed, staff members say, is the paper's mission ...

Our brains and their associated diseases are notoriously hard to study. So, researchers developed an animal model with a ...

Contemporary sculptures, fish made from typographic elements, centuries-old treatises and historical global cookbooks will ...

Until its discovery during a house appraisal, the debut bust by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, a celebrated artist and feminist icon ...