Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

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In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

The quintessential superhero has always stood for truth and justice, but the final part of his catchphrase has morphed to ...

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...

When Air and Space opened in 1976, Neil Armstrong’s first small step was fresh in our memories. With the nation’s 250th ...