In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative ...

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

The watercolors of the American master will be on exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, some for the only time in a ...

It’s not a bird, nor a plane, nor Superman. At first glance, the burning hunk of metal discovered in Western Australia’s ...

A wreck in London broke his bones but not his spirit. So he got back on his two-wheeled horse and sailed through the ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

Isaque Carvalho Borges experiences the urban heat island effect in his home of Palmas, Brazil, and he wants to do something ...

A new analysis finds tropical forests in Australia are not taking in enough carbon dioxide to keep up with the emissions from ...

Excavations are shedding light on what life was like at the ancient site, which may have once housed hundreds of soldiers at ...

On the 50th anniversary of his iconic jump at Kings Island theme park, we’re celebrating Evel Knievel—a daredevil stuntman ...

The art of making captivating Peruvian textiles has traditionally been anonymous work. But at 75, Sara Flores is making a ...

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...