After multiple dusky sharks killed a swimmer off Israel’s coast this year, scientists investigated what might have triggered ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war ...

The vessels sank in a violent hurricane off the coast of Florida in July 1715, when they were traveling from Cuba to Spain ...

This area of research is still in the early stages, but it could someday help reduce wait times for patients needing kidney ...

Culinary epitaphs offer a point of connection to the deceased’s descendants and anyone else who comes across them ...

Scientists discovered that talented experts had "younger" brains than those of their less experienced counterparts, and even ...

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the ...

The findings, published in the journal Current Biology last month, are a “perfect example of evolution in action,” Sam ...

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

Ahead of painter Robert Rauschenberg’s centennial this fall, a new book details how he was fueled by looking to the sky ...

She was considered the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees and was renowned for her global conservation efforts ...

Bearded vultures have been extinct in southern Spain for 70 to 130 years, depending on the specific region. But while the ...