A former slave who commandeered a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom, is one of the greatest American ...

The story of Robert Smalls stands as a powerful reminder that Black history is not a side note to the American story but is central to it.

Ley is going to resign from her seat and leave politics following her defeat. But how much of her downfall was her own bad ...

For many, seeing the northern lights tops […] ...

New research is proving persistent gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers can't be ...

In other words, you want to construct a polyhedral torus with faces that are shapes such as triangles or rectangles. Your peculiar-looking shape will be trickier to construct than one with a smooth ...

What looks like a galactic dance is really a cosmic optical illusion—two galaxies, worlds apart, perfectly aligned by chance.

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

"Cephalopods use a complex system of muscles and nerves to exhibit dynamic control over the appearance and texture of their ...

The details of Moraes’ findings have been published in an article for Archaeometry, including acknowledgements of all of the software Moraes employed. It concludes that the image on the Shroud of ...

For a low-cost solution, Karthik Urs, then at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his colleagues 3D printed a robot with legs that can be adapted to match those of various species — complete ...

Researchers unveil octopus-inspired smart skin that hides images, changes shape, and encodes data via 4D printing.