For decades, researchers seeking to understand global climate change have analyzed ice cores drilled deep within the ...

Some of the oldest U.S. roads still in use today include the Boston Post Road, the Old Mine Road, and the Old Albany Post ...

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.

Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty.

At 80 years old, Betty Kellenberger recently became the oldest woman to ever hike the entire Appalachian Trail.

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

João Marinho Neto's milestone came months after he celebrated the world’s oldest person, Ethel Caterham, on her 116th birthday Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The world’s oldest man, João Marinho Neto, turned 113 on Oct. 5, celebrating his birthday with a party with loved ones Neto became the world's oldest man in November 2024, and he told Guinness World ...

The journey begins on the idyllic Caribbean Island of Isla Mujeres and challenges teams to race 5,900km to reach the finish ...

A Midtown Manhattan anomaly, the Argosy Book Store continues to thrive thanks to the dedication of the three women who have presided over it for decades.

The very first ready-to-eat cereal was Granula, created in 1863 by Dr. James Caleb Jackson, a health reformer who ran a spa in New York called the Jackson Sanatorium. Jackson believed diet played a ...