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New research indicates early humans and canines were interacting in the Americas 2,000 years earlier than previously thought ...

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections could cause serious damage to telecommunications systems, satellites and power grids here on Earth ...

The iconic brand's mobile phones were pop culture mainstays. Soon, a new online archive will bring together thousands of documents, early models and design concepts ...

From the realization that paleontologists still haven't found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing dino, the year has been marked by awe-inspiring finds ...

Mount Fuji's last eruption, which happened on this day in 1707, was also its largest, spewing ash and debris over cities and farms, causing famines, respiratory problems and untold death ...

Because of his alleged involvement with the Ghost Dance movement, the Lakota leader, who died on this day in 1890, was seen as a threat to the U.S. government's efforts to subdue Indigenous Americans ...

The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political parties in post-World War I Britain ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without existing barriers to protect against them ...

An exhibition in London is highlighting a collection of Baroque timepieces designed by the renowned Parisian craftsman André-Charles Boulle ...

The findings suggest that astronomers' widely accepted cosmology models might be missing something--meaning the longstanding mystery known as the "Hubble tension" continues ...