This year marks 75 years since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, bringing World War II to a dramatic close.
A Masterpiece Collection For over four decades, Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951), a pharmaceutical magnate, curated an extraordinary collection of 900 paintings, featuring 59 works by Henri Matisse and 181 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
125-Million-Year-Old Fossil Unveiled A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur species, Comptonatus chasei, roamed an island off England’s southern coast 125 million years ago, recent research reveals.
In an unprecedented event, two lion brothers, including one with an amputated leg, swam nearly a mile through the crocodile-filled Kazinga Channel in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.
A new study based on DNA from 108 prehistoric individuals suggests that an ancient form of plague might have been widespread among Europe’s first farmers, potentially causing a mysterious population collapse 5,000 years ago.