Eight miles east of the Puerto Rican mainland, the island of Vieques offers beaches, bioluminescence and decades of military ...

How moving tectonic plates and rising heat from deep within Earth created one of the ocean’s largest canyons. On land, giant canyons like the Grand Canyon are usually the slow handiwork of rivers that ...

Across India’s deserts, scientists trace a vanished river linked to Saraswati, where satellite clues, buried channels, and ancient settlements raise fresh questions about climate change, civilisation ...

In a dusty hospital basement on the outskirts of London, over 100 years of medical history lines the shelves, neatly arranged ...

America erased the histories of Black men like Henry Fordham, my great-great-grandfather. I was determined to find out the truth.

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

It certainly seems to be the case for a Hobart and William Smith Colleges Professor Emeritus whose first murder mystery novel ...

Silkwood, of Aurora, Colorado, northeast of Denver, was going through belongings of her late grandfather, who also lived near ...

I’ve spent my whole life looking at other people’s bodies,” says the painter Emil Sands. “I’m trying to work out why they’re ...

After living with COVID-19 the last few years, we're all thinking about how to prevent another pandemic—often, our best clues come from learning about outbreaks of the past. Join Stefan Chin for a new ...

Historian Keith Lockhart is well into a new year, digging deep into his mound of photos, postcards and photo-based illustrations from days gone by in Delaware County. He’s cataloging these signposts ...