Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

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So far, just 36 percent of U.S. children have been vaccinated—down 23 percent from a half-decade earlier, likely due to ...

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Niğmet and Ali are both from the village of Tekelioğlu, which abutted the lake. Niğmet fished in its waters, she reminisces, ...

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The state’s true character can be found down dirt roads without traffic lights and inside warmly lit farmhouse inns.

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...