While working as a porter, Alfred L. Cralle witnessed how hard it was to serve ice cream cones one-handed. He saved the day ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz Email Powered by ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

The portrait of a fisherman was found in Minnesota by an anonymous collector. A new analysis has concluded that it could be ...

Experts say the case is either a rare form of asexual reproduction or an instance of (very) delayed fertilization ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...