The Vatican this week announced the creation of a new global art triennial that aims to uplift contemporary art and celebrate the ability of human creativity—not technology—to spark introspection and ...

Fifty-five years ago, surfer Tom Morey cut a piece of polyethylene foam with a carving knife and created a wave-riding board with a low barrier of entry ...

After sequencing the DNA of the world’s only Emmons’s tree rat specimen, museum scientists have returned to the Bornean forest to learn more about the mysterious rodent ...

The new app was created with the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community. Motorola and the Lenovo Foundation. A new free app aims to ...

A raptor center in California had been caring for the animal since mid-July, after she had an altercation with two young ...

The highest-resolution image of the sun's surface ever captured NSF / NSO / AURA / MPS The sun’s surface contains swirling whirlpools, each of which could fit inside a city—small structures, when it ...

If you dive to the Mindoro more than once, you’ll find that the shipwreck is always changing. The vessel has been resting in the cold, dark waters of the English Channel since the 19th century—but as ...

Although mountain lions are fearsome predators, the wild cats might also help keep humans safe in a surprising way. When the large carnivores—sometimes also called pumas, cougars or panthers—are ...

The Romans considered the phallus a symbol of good luck and used it to decorate objects, mark walls and inspire sculptures ...

The Food and Drug Administration just approved the new type of flu vaccine for adults ages 50 and older. It relies on the ...

A new animation from The Prado, called "El Prado a la luz del eclipse," uses A.I. to imagine masterpieces by Goya and Velázquez as if their scenes occurred during a total solar eclipse ...

Four years after Anderson Taylor began collecting specimens, he opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in Cambridge, ...