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Visit the Call for Individual Presentations. The journal Citizen Science: Theory and Practice is looking for abstracts for a Special Collection on citizen science in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and ...

Dutch Central Archives of the Special Jurisdiction was publicly opened under the country's national archive rules. This ...

The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans’ daily lives as farmers and enslavers Sara Georgini Historian, Massachusetts Historical Society Between July 1776 and June 1826, ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring "the day of the so-called ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

Is it a fish? Is it a sea monster? Is it Cthulhu? In 1997, while using underwater microphones to monitor volcanic activity in the depths of the southern Pacific Ocean, researchers with NOAA’s Pacific ...

Whooping cough cases are increasing in the United States, having hit their highest point in a decade, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Webcam image of lava flows across the Halema'uma'u Crater at Kīlauea from the December 2024 eruption. Credit: USGS/HVO. The summit caldera of Kīlauea in Hawai'i seen by ESA's Sentinel-2 on December 25 ...

Mortality in the United States, 2023 CDC. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2003–2023 Sam Walters is a journalist covering archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution for Discover, ...

Some of the most stunning and spectacular sites on the planet are waterfalls. Not only are they beautiful, but these natural water breaks can have cultural significance, help shape landscapes, create ...