T he Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

In a new study, researchers reenacted how people in Taiwan might have reached the Ryukyu Islands tens of thousands of years ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Ancient sediment reveals humans began systematically using fire 50,000 years ago, reshaping global climate patterns.

Ice cores provide important evidence as archival records of global atmospheric composition that has constantly changed.

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

How humans moved large rocks to construct monuments has fueled many theories, even though it is a matter of physics and coordinated efforts by a large workforce. A more interesting concept to explore ...

As wild oyster stocks dwindled, large oyster farms developed in cities like New York in the 19th century. Initially successful, they were polluted, and infected by typhoid from sewage. An outbreak in ...

This is a repost from the archives, an older post by Henrik which has been updated to reflect more recent findings. Did you know there are 255 volcanoes or volcanic features listed in the US?

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