The six-foot woman, carved in pale stone, wears a peaked headdress, circular earrings and the wide hip belt and kneepads of an ancient Mesoamerican athlete. Her expression is fierce, her pose triumphant....
Read moreThis article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel.The blockbuster movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer might have...
Read moreThis article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel.If you’ve ever wanted to see, touch or even...
Read moreFederal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online...
Read moreMore than 100 long-finned pilot whales stranded along the shores of Western Australia on Thursday have returned to the ocean, while 29 died on the beach, wildlife officials said.Officials were working to...
Read moreThe Biden administration on Thursday finalized a rule meant to speed up federal permits for major transmission lines, part of a broader push to expand America’s electric grids.Administration officials are increasingly worried...
Read moreThe Biden administration has effectively moved to end the use of coal to keep the lights on in America. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency released four major regulations designed to slash...
Read moreThanks to their reign of terror in “Jurassic Park,” Velociraptors are infamous prehistoric predators.The sickle-clawed killing machines familiar to moviegoers, though, are far removed from their scientific counterparts — and not just...
Read moreThe Biden administration on Wednesday said that it would begin requiring dairy cows moving across state lines to be tested for bird flu, which has been spreading in herds for months. The...
Read moreEarlier this month, millions of Americans looked up at the sky to witness a total eclipse. Now, another cyclical marvel has arrived, this time at our feet. Trillions of noisy, red-eyed insects...
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