Although many picture L.A. with its vast sandy beaches to the west, the old Pueblo de Los Angeles actually formed further ...

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The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing individualized therapies for cancer and other diseases ...

While this quest may scare away arachnophobes, public donations of funnel-webs are critical to the mission of the Australian ...

Soon to be on display at the National Museum of American History, the laptop is the centerpiece of a criminal case that shows ...

Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been naming America’s most endangered historic places, ...