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Easter wouldn鈥檛 be Easter without a bunny, egg hunts, and festive baskets. Alongside the religious significance of Easter, the story behind the Easter Bunny and Easter eggs involves a mix of pagan rituals, Christian traditions, and 19th century European folklore. Candace Buckner, assistant professor of religion and culture at Virginia Tech, shares more about the history behind these modern symbols of Easter.

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Sandia National Laboratories is helping defend deployed troops and the nation against hypersonic threats. During a March 24 test, the Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the Navy, launched a Sandia-developed hypersonic target.

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Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools 鈥� it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well-preserved evidence of fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age in Europe has been found so far.

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The Kranzberg Arts Foundation (KAF), in collaboration with Saint Louis University and the St. Louis Literary Award program, is proud to announce a new mural by acclaimed artist Dominic Chambers.

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A consortium that includes a principal investigator from the University of Pretoria (UP) has been awarded funding for a project that will research the colonial history of European universities, and explore how these legacies and heritage can be addressed and curated.

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More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research led by the University of Bristol has revealed.

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The University of Nebraska鈥揕incoln鈥檚 Sheldon Museum of Art will present a series of free public programs in conjunction with 鈥淓xploding Native Inevitable,鈥� a traveling exhibition that features the work of 12 contemporary Indigenous artists and two collectives. The exhibition runs through July 13 at the museum.

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The changing demographics of the Catholic Church may be the future. But for the last six years, Rollo-Koster has led a team of international scholars in telling the story of the papacy鈥檚 first 2,000 years 鈥� from Saint Peter, the believed first pope, to Francis.

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Hardworking but mostly invisible in public life, South African queens have set a course to work together across royal houses to formulate a common vision of their collective contribution to peace and development in South Africa.

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Explore the history of the Underground Railroad 鈥� a secret network of people and safe houses that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the United States. And learn about its most famous conductor, Harriet Tubman, who was commemorated with a statue on the Downtown Binghamton Freedom Trail.

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This April people from all over the United States will travel to Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the 鈥渟hot heard round the world鈥� when the colony鈥檚 militia, known as minutemen, faced off against British troops at Concord鈥檚 North Bridge. Eliga Gould, a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire and an expert on the American Revolution, can offer insight into events leading up to the start of the Revolutionary War, the importance of the first battle, the iconic minuteman statue that stands at the site and other little-known historical facts.

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The early universe was filled with a thick fog of neutral hydrogen. Even though the first stars and galaxies emitted copious amounts of ultraviolet light, that light struggled to pierce the fog. It took hundreds of millions of years for the neutral hydrogen to become ionized, electrons stripped from protons, allowing light to travel freely through space. Astronomers are seeking to understand this unique time of transformation, known as the era of reionization. A newly discovered galaxy illuminated this era in an unexpected way. JADES-GS-z13-1, observed just 330 million years after the big bang, shows bright hydrogen emission that should have been absorbed by the cosmic fog. Theorists are struggling to explain how its light could have pierced the fog at such an early time.

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Chulalongkorn University has been recognized as the leading university in Thailand across 34 subjects in the QS University Rankings by Subject 2025, announced on March 12, 2025.

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University of Utah anthropologists with the Natural History Museum of Utah uncover microscopic plant residues in bedrock metates, revealing insights into the diets and traditions of ancient Indigenous communities.

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Three experts from UdeM analyze Canada-U.S.relations and the threats posed to our shared border in Donald Trump's second presidential term.

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The University of West Florida Archaeology Institute is leading the search for Fort Kirkland in Okaloosa County, Florida, thanks to a $250,000 grant from the Department of State. UWF students, faculty, archaeologists, local families and veterans with Task Force Dagger Special Operations Foundation are working together to study and memorialize the fort.

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The Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity at Binghamton University, State University of New York has unveiled a statue of Tubman, the famous abolitionist and activist who led slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

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鈥淎 professor at the Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, has discovered evidence of an earthen embankment indicating another large ancient community in the location overlapping the old city of Nakhon Ratchasima.鈥�