Gaudí, nicknamed "God's architect," was declared "venerable" by Pope Francis this week, putting him one step closer to canonization ...

Smithsonian curator Larry Bird shows off convention artifacts and other campaign memorabilia from the collection of the National Museum of American History (Smit ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

Created in the Grotesque style, the 16th-century images—revealed by renovations at a lodge in England—mimic historic textile ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

Ornithologist Bruce Beehler tracks down what he calls the “Magnificent Seven,” a charismatic group of migratory birds, in his ...

Historical accounts of vast ocean waters glowing in the dark go back hundreds of years, and researchers are still trying to ...

To thank America for its support during the war, France sent a boxcar stuffed with gifts to each state. But in the late 1950s ...

Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...