The family of a Nazi official has turned in "Portrait of a Lady," an 18th-century artwork by the Italian painter Giuseppe ...

Paleontologists describe four new species of extinct ancestral penguins that help shed light on how the iconic birds evolved ...

Two nearly identical artworks, at least one of them by the renowned Dutch master, hang side-by-side for the first time in ...

In a new study, scientists tested how honeybees adapt to construct their hives on 3D-printed foundations of varying sizes ...

Bargibant’s pygmy seahorses look almost exactly like the gorgonian corals they live in, thanks in part to their unusually ...

The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. The newly emerging science of aeroecology is bringing a ...

Discover how Grandma Moses, a self-taught artist, turned to painting in her late 70s and became an American folk-art icon.

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The jukebox got its start earlier than you might think, but it truly became iconic when rock 'n' roll took over in the 1950s ...

Young football players locked in a huddle in the 1960s, jealously guarding their strategy for the next play. . During a tight ...

Personal notebooks reveal what life was like for the Washington activist who spent decades advocating for equal rights in the ...

A new study suggests that fragments unearthed at an archaeological site in Uzbekistan look like other examples of arrowheads ...