Libraries are more than just buildings filled with books—they are time capsules of human knowledge, culture, and history. Some libraries have stood for centuries, surviving wars, natural disasters, ...

A 4,000-year-old tax receipt is among the treasures on display at the State Library of Victoria's annual World of the Book ...

New research reveals that an inconic Argentine glacier is undergoing its most significant retreat in a century. The Perito ...

Art Around the World will be guests' passport to a day of rediscovery, creativity, and connection for visitors of all ages August 16.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is causing air quality concerns for millions of Americans in the Midwest and Northeast.

When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.

While scuba diving in a swampy river, I uncovered an abundance of fossilized shark teeth and ancient relics scattered along the riverbed. This video documents the underwater search, the techniques ...

Singapore is launching a broad review to secure the city-state's future as a trade and financial hub, announcing committees on Monday to look into areas such as competitiveness, artificial ...

Researchers across three universities are using prehistoric teeth and bones to provide new knowledge of present-day infectious diseases. The joint project between the University of Oxford, the ...

Just as it did for the Greeks, the beach can make us feel that we are on the threshold of a different world. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

A moderately strong, 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Mexico on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:58 a.m. Central time about 1 mile northeast ...

Huge upheavals of the land and sea were facts of life in the ancient world, just as they are today.