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Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

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Will the artwork honor a hometown hero, reflect the area’s commitment to education or the environment, depict a beloved park ...

While it went for well below the auction house's estimate, "Composition With Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the ...

Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

Jamaica has over 600 miles of coastline. It has mountains, streams, woods, valleys, waterfalls and cliffs, and stunning views ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939" is a sprawling collection of more than 300 works at Chicago's Wrightwood 659 gallery ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

Experiments challenge the commonly held idea that dropping an egg vertically will help prevent it from cracking in a classic ...