"The Jinx." "Making a Murderer." And now, orangutans? Why this female-on-female ape killing took researchers by surprise - and reads like a human true-crime drama.

President Theodore Roosevelt was injured in a boxing match with his military aide, Daniel T. Moore, causing him to lose sight in his eye.

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Pluto will complete its first orbit since 1930 in 2178, a historic 248-year space journey that spans generations of humans.

Throughout the history of warfare there have been many instances of opposing armies tacitly agreeing to temporarily stop fighting. During the First World War, despite the dominant image of the Western Front as a battle zone of continuous bloody slaughter…

Here's an object lesson in how messed up America's food culture is.

Caesium atomic clock made by Louis Essen and J.V.L. Parry at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, London, 1955.

The nucleus that evolved into the San Diego Zoo lay in the display of animals at the Panama-California Exposition held in 1915- 1916. So popular did the Exposition become, it carried on for a second year, added the word international, and included an array…

Although familiar to each of us, the sensation of inhabiting a body is ineffable. Traditional senses like vision and hearing monitor the external environment, allowing humans to have shared sensory experiences. But proprioception, the sensation of body position…

The bumpy snailfish is one of three new species of deep-sea snailfish described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY Geneseo.

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, better known simply as the Marquis de Lafayette, was born into an extremely noble family in Chavaniac, France in...