On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...

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Cast your vote for your favorite of the photographs, which are all contenders for the People’s Choice award, through January ...

The annual event takes place in the Massachusetts town of New Bedford, which is where Herman Melville's celebrated 1851 novel ...

Challenge trials help researchers study immune responses. Skeptics still doubt the approach is worth the risks ...

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Species in Lake Victoria, Lake Titicaca, Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone and the Western Ghats of India are particularly vulnerable to ...

The royal treasures were stashed away at the beginning of World War II. Experts knew the trove existed, but previous attempts ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" ...

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help ...