It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...

An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat ...

From hand-sized lantern sharks that glow in the deep sea to bus-sized whale sharks gliding through tropical waters, sharks come in all shapes and sizes.

“We found that sharks follow what’s known as the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ almost perfectly,” explained Joel Gayford, a PhD ...