DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

For workers even fifty years ago, the speed at which modern manufacturing operates would have seemed like science fiction.

Sometime in the coming weeks, a convoy of trucks will depart Vidalia, Louisiana, for Trion, Georgia, carrying 45 antique ...

Oldrieve’s shoes were similar to those worn by other water walkers, but he experimented with different designs over time and ...

Thousands of years and conspiracies have all led to this: the Great Pyramid of Giza may have been built using the basic ...

For three days I had been watching for caribou from behind a spruce-tree lookout not far from my cabin on Savage River, on ...

Archie Collins went to sleep the night of the raid like he often does: on the floor and hungry. He was up on the fifth floor ...

The Massachusetts football team invented yet another way to lose Saturday in a thrilling 28-21 loss at the hands of Buffalo. The Minutemen (0-7, 0-3 Mid-American) could taste victory while holding a ...

It smells of manure and is stained by tobacco juice. It's where tough men dance to keep loose and a few men say their last words. In the late 1990s, National Geographic spent a season on the rodeo ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...

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