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Germany to Compensate Child Refugees Who Escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport to Britain
The program brought an estimated 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi-controlled Europe to safety in Great Britain
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DNA Can Help Repatriate the Remains of Aboriginal Australians
A new study was able to match genetic material of ancient remains to the DNA of living Aboriginal communities
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Cardinals in Different Regions Could Actually Be Distinct Species, Their Songs Suggest
Populations of the ubiquitous red bird have different calls and genetics in the American southwest
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After a Murderous Rise to the Top, a Naked Mole-Rat Queen Reigns Supreme
Mole-rat monarch asserted dominance by giving birth to three pups on Monday morning—all hail her majesty
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When Do Children Give Up on Santa?
A preview of a new international study explores when kids stop believing and how, after the jig is up, it impacted them psychologically
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Christmas Card Addressed to Bletchley Codebreakers Discovered
The lost holiday message features the only known photograph of operatives’ September 1938 meeting, the enigmatic “Captain Ridley’s shooting party”
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Cliquey Adriatic Dolphins May Have Strategies for Avoiding Each Other
You can’t swim with us
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Past Global Flood Shows Antarctica’s Ice Is More Fragile Than We Thought
Data indicates the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed after a small rise in temperature, meaning sea level could rise faster than predicted
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Found: The Earliest Cinematic Depiction of a Black Couple Kissing
The recently surfaced 19th-century nitrate print has been inducted into the Library of Congress
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Man Convicted of Poaching Ordered to Watch ‘Bambi’ Monthly While in Jail
David Berry Jr. of Missouri was implicated in a multi-year hunting operation that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of deer
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Looks From ‘The Favourite’ Go on Display in Queen Anne’s Home
See the elaborate dresses and outfits inspired by the monarch’s 18th-century court at Kensington Palace
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A Dracula Ant’s Snapping Jaw Is the Fastest Known Appendage in the Animal Kingdom
A new study found that the ant can snap its mandibles at a speed of up to 200 miles per hour—5,000 times faster than the blink of an eye
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Meet Farout, the Solar System’s Most Distant Minor Planet
Observations suggest the object is 300 miles in diameter, pinkish-red and 3.5 times as far away from the sun as Pluto
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With Cornerstone Set, Mosul’s Landmark al-Nuri Mosque Begins Rebuilding Process
The start of physical reconstruction of the historic mosque and its iconic leaning minaret was marked in a ceremony on Sunday
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Trove of Well-Preserved Dinosaur Footprints Unearthed Along Sussex Coast
Researchers discovered more than 85 fossilized footprints left by at least seven prehistoric species
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New Digital Archive Provides Critical Record of Egon Schiele’s Body of Work
Online catalogue raisonné features over 400 paintings, graphics, sketchbooks and sculptures, with additional drawings, watercolors set to be added in 2019
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A Brief History of ‘Silent Night’
The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818
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Fentanyl Has Outpaced Heroin as Drug Implicated Most Often in Fatal Overdoses
In 2016, more than two-thirds of fentanyl-related deaths involved at least one other drug
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Shrinking of Utah National Monument May Threaten Bee Biodiversity
The Grand Staircase-Escalante is home to 660 bee species, 84 of which will live outside of protected land under changes
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Archaeologist Reconstructs Ruins of Tiwanaku Temple in Bolivia Using 3-D Printing Technology
It was like an ‘elaborate lego set,’ says UC Berkeley’s Alexei Vranich
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