The United States was built by immigrants, and this statement holds true even in its scientific and technological sectors.

Ann Marimow writes about the Supreme Court for The Washington Post. She previously covered state government and politics at the San Jose Mercury News in California and the Concord Monitor in New ...

“Every day that this destruction continues, it further harms our ancestors and our culture. On Wednesday the Muscogee Creek Nation filed a motion to submit a new complaint in the long-running cas ...

“The Brutalist,” a film about a Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States to achieve the American Dream ... and extended family ancestors, some of whom ...

Our goal was to estimate the likely litter size of different mammalian ancestors: What were the odds of a singleton birth for each species at any given point in time? The number of offspring a ...

"It allowed (the pre-human ancestors) to access a whole array of foods that they would never have had access to before." Plummer said that new diet would have fueled body and brain growth ...

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago. The Homa Peninsula, in Kenya, is part of the East African Rift ...

The excavated surface shows the hominin trackway along with footprints of hippos, a large bird and other animals. For the photo, scientists filled the hominin tracks and a few other footprints with ...

There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records available on Ancestry.com and more. Check out our list of ways you ...

which can recreate ancestry by looking at how many genetic mutations are shared between individuals. 'It allows us to see what we couldn't before, in this case migrations all across Europe ...

Yet a new DNA study shows that their ancestry may lie closer to home. Human remains from Scandinavia dating before the 8th century raids show genetic links to Britain and central Europe suggesting ...

In the United States, the Irish American community has a unique way of welcoming the New Year – by indulging in a hearty meal of corned beef and cabbage. This tradition has deep roots in Irish ...