On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...

Cast your vote for your favorite of the photographs, which are all contenders for the People’s Choice award, through January ...

So far, only two of the four lynx have been recaptured, leaving authorities scrambling across the snowy woods to find the ...

The annual event takes place in the Massachusetts town of New Bedford, which is where Herman Melville's celebrated 1851 novel ...

The brain's waste-removal process is "like turning on the dishwasher," a neurologist says, but common sleep medications may ...

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help ...

Species in Lake Victoria, Lake Titicaca, Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone and the Western Ghats of India are particularly vulnerable to ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

The royal treasures were stashed away at the beginning of World War II. Experts knew the trove existed, but previous attempts ...

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" ...