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Westchester Elementary fifth graders created a Women’s History Month living museum, portraying 19 influential women and ...

The president wants third countries to take migrants who can’t be sent back home. To get that, almost everything is up for ...

By Banji OjewaleAmong Thailand’s over 71 million citizens are around one million Christians boxed into Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, along with other independent groups ...

From impressive museums to tasting cheese curds, beer and wandering along the river, here are the best things to do in ...

Why are frogs diverse in some parts of Africa's rainforests and less so in others? The patterns of cooling and glaciation ...

Southern Africa is widely recognized for its rich fossil record, preserving evidence of ancient life, including dinosaurs. However, around 182 million years ago, massive lava eruptions spread across ...

Native Americans had dice and games of probability 12,000 years ago, according to a new study. That’s far earlier than the ...

As long as 220,000 years ago—far earlier than previously thought—people quarried rocks for their tools in places they ...

Expanding electricity access is transforming lives across Africa, from Nairobi’s informal settlements to rural fishing ...

Book science helps decipher and preserve fragile manuscripts, at a moment when climate change and mass digitization are ...

An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces ...