Researchers in Israel dug for years for evidence—and what they found may have implications for modern residents of the region ...

Black History Month is observed throughout the month of February each year. Here's why the month was chosen.

Two things can be true at once — and in Japan they usually are. It’s a land of contradictions and, thanks to this and its reputation for complex, manners-driven culture, visitors can sometimes feel ...

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...

A Colorado attorney has proposed 97 new names for Colorado peaks, including changing the name of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park ...

Other parks saw significant declines, however. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a 1.25 million-acre site spanning parts of Utah and Arizona and including Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam and ...

Around the world, trail designers are quietly employing surprising techniques to engineer awe. You’ve probably felt it without even knowing why. Inside the creative science that’s transforming your ...

January doesn’t skimp on cosmic sightseeing. The month begins with a vibrant supermoon, continues with the year’s best Jupiter view, and ends with multiple moon-planet conjunctions. Aurora activity ...

Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.” After the age of 40, the average brain decreases 5 ...

Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ancient valleys and human resilience is tested against the raw power of nature.

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...