(CNN) — This year, scientists were able to pull back the curtain on mysteries surrounding figures across history, both known and unknown, to reveal more about their unique stories. In some cases, ...

The Virginia Museum of History of Culture wants you to know that Colonel William Tavington wasn’t so bad after all. “He’s based on a real historical person called Banastre Tarleton,” says Sam Florer, ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

For 300 years explorers and naturalists have reported another kind of firefly behavior, seen in the region stretching from ...

New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science set to reopen its doors April 4 HOW MUCH: Tickets are $5 to $8 at nmnaturalhistory.org; tickets for the Planetarium Powered by Meta and the Verus ...

Graveyard of the Atlantic, Indigenous peoples reconnect with a river and the oldest longleaf pine. Learn what makes the Outer Banks so deadly and how the Coharie Indian Tribe’s restoration of their ...

Here are some of the ways science sparked a new understanding of historical figures in 2024, and in some cases, led to more mysteries that have yet to be untangled. Unmasking the unknown A detailed ...

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Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from decades to centuries. The thought-provoking findings offer new ways of ...