An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918. “Of the 12 men who slept in my squad room, 7 were ill at one time,” a soldier recalled. New Contributed Photographs Collection / otis ...

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World By Andrew Lawler ...

Snake wranglers safely relocated the healthy, female western diamondback from a backyard in Scottsdale, but they say the find is a first in their experience ...

The stunning vessels from the H. Wilson & Company were forgotten for generations, only to gain new appreciation for the craftsmanship that went into them A jar made by H. Wilson & Company in ...

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

Bleats and chirps between two giant pandas are a sure sign that flirtatious feelings are in the air! Read all about the ...

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

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s ...

The new sunspot responsible for this powerful blast is rotating into view, which could bring more solar activity—and potential aurora-causing coronal mass ejections—to Earth in the coming days ...

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

The Dutch merchant ship 'Koning Willem de Tweede' sank off the coast of South Australia in a violent storm in June 1857 ...