On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy ...