Mike Trask’s Comox Valley-based discovery would forever change paleontology in B.C. and would inspire a flood of amateur paleontologists, many of whom would go on to make hundreds of new discoveries ...

A fundraiser is underway to raise $40,000 to create a firefighters' museum, to be located in the lobby of the Sartell Public Safety Building.

Planning permission has been granted for a major new exhibition hangar at the Avro Heritage Museum in Stockport, paving the way for expanded displays, historic aircraft including an Avro Shackleton, ...

Major reforms to the United Kingdom’s national research funding agency are aimed at boosting the nation’s economy.

In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past ...

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...

Silk screens, women's firefighting robes and a Darth Vader costume are among the more than 280 unexpected items that are on ...

Historical conservation societies have decried the British Museum ‘s plans to overhaul its front courtyard. The new design—intended to make entry into the museum more efficient—would introduce two ...

Visitors to Madrid’s Prado Museum, home of the Spanish national art collection, can expect to pay €15 (£13) to get in. It costs €25 (£22) to see the Rembrandts, Vermeers and Van Goghs in Amsterdam’s ...

In 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is celebrating all things American bison. Through a series of ...

This week’s top things to do include a Joss Stone concert, half-off museum admission and an event with Scripps Polar Center.