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A wild female Amur leopard crouches on a rocky hillside in the Kedrovaya Pad nature reserve in Russia.

Future of Conservation

China Approves Massive National Park to Protect Its Last Big Cats

The 5,600-square-mile reserve along the Russian border will safeguard rare Amur leopards and Siberian Tigers

March 15, 2017

The storm battering the northeastern U.S. is expected to undergo “bombogenesis.” Just what does that mean?

March 14, 2017

National Archives of Korea's Busan Repository

The kaizuka trees represent a long and complicated history with the country’s former colonial occupier

March 14, 2017

The First Baptist Cemetery was supposed to have been moved in 1859, but as it turned out many of the graves were left behind

March 14, 2017

This once-secret memo lays out methods for secret writing once used by intelligence agencies.

The National Archives wants you…to make documents more accessible to future generations

March 13, 2017

In the early days of the Civil Rights Movements, students took a stand by sitting down.

The lunch counter where John Lewis and others were arrested will now be part of a soul food eatery and music venue

March 13, 2017

Chris Bertish at his finishing line in Antigua

South African surfer Chris Bertish spent 93 days paddling 4,050 miles between Morocco and Antigua

March 10, 2017

The little moon has drawn comparisons to ravioli, empanadas, and hamburger.

Cool Finds

One of Saturn’s Moons is Making Astronomers Hungry

New images of the tiny moon are drawing comparisons to a ravioli, empanadas, walnuts, hamburgers…nom, nom, nom

March 10, 2017

The limestone arch on the island of Gozo was expected to stand several more decades, but a vicious storm Wednesday took out the natural wonder

March 9, 2017

Mildred and Richard Loving, subjects of the documentary The Loving Story and the feature-film Loving. Their story will be a topic of discussion at the History Film Forum.

The four-day Forum looks into time travel, black America, Poe and other depictions of history in the media

March 9, 2017

First image from NASA's Geostationary Lightning Tracker

Part of the GOES-16 weather satellite, the geosynchronous imager promises to improve storm detection and reveal the secrets of thunderbolts

March 8, 2017

A close call at Lake Oroville raises questions about the safety of America's dams.

A quiet crisis is afoot as the nation’s infrastructure ages

March 7, 2017

The late justice's papers will be housed at Harvard Law.

The Supreme Court justice left behind a substantial legal and archival legacy

March 7, 2017

Drought and sand-tainted snacks might be the reason for the recent deaths

March 7, 2017

A child stands in the Côte d’Ivoire charcoal yard where his mother works.

New reports say that one in four deaths of young people under the age of five can be attributed to the environment

March 7, 2017

Veterinarians stand with Omsin the green sea turtle, whose life they saved during an hours-long operation.

Trending Today

This Sea Turtle Ate 11 Pounds of Coins

Veterinarians removed the 900+ coins from Omsin the turtle’s stomach after they noticed she was acting erratic

March 6, 2017

Cool Finds

Skeletons Found Under a Florida Wine Shop May Be Some of America’s First Colonists

The skeletons, found in St. Augustine, Florida, likely date to the first decades of the oldest European settlement in the United States

March 6, 2017

Amsterdam's Central Station will again take center stage when the city widens some of its canals.

Soon, the city’s iconic Central Station will look more like its old self

March 6, 2017

This lumpy moon would have made short work of NASA's MAVEN craft.

Left unattended, MAVEN and Phobos could have collided

March 3, 2017

New Research

New Definition Would Make the Moon and Pluto Planets

A suggested update to the International Astronomical Union criteria would add over 100 planets to the solar system

March 3, 2017