The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well someday become the foundation of a common citizenship,” Winston Churchill prophesied in his famous speech at Harvard ...

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Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

MUNISING, MI -- Nearly two decades ago, Michigan’s iconic Pictured Rocks changed its silhouette forever. On the morning of April 13, 2006 a fishermen witnessed the northeast turret of Miners ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

Or, at least, songs that sound like they would be total fever dreams but were actually very real. Here are three songs that, on first listen, sound like jokes, but have huge cult followings ...