The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at age 88, strived to make the church more inclusive. But critics believed his reforms ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Two small clinical trials tested the safety of injecting stem cells into the brains of Parkinson's patients and found no ...

The race, held in China on Saturday, showcases the country’s advancements in humanoid technology. Still, only 6 of the 21 ...

Discovered in pieces in a backyard garden in London, the vessel turned out to be the work of Hans Coper, one of Britain’s ...

In southern Peru’s Atico River Valley, archaeologists have unearthed a large tomb filled with the battle-scarred skeletons of 24 women, men and children. Interred in various stone enclosures, the two ...

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...

Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the ...

Rescuers only recovered the bodies of 337 of the 1,500-plus passengers and crew who died in the disaster. Around one-third of ...

Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

"Young Lion Resting" is among dozens of Dutch Golden Age artworks from the Leiden Collection that are now on view at the ...