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

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

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

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

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

During World War II, the crew of the Zaida were among the everyday Americans who risked their lives watching out for enemy ...

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

Among the destroyed structures are the ranch established by comedian Will Rogers and a motel owned by notorious publisher ...