Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures ...

Nestled in the South Pacific Ocean, some 6,000 people live on the most isolated, inhabited island in the world: Rapa Nui.

New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story of how complex societies rise, adapt and endure. On Rapa Nui, better known ...

A nor’easter will batter Long Island with high winds, several inches of rain and coastal flooding, dampening hopes of those pining for a three-day fall weekend — not to mention Columbus Day ...

In February 1921, the Rev. John Mortimer Lydgate, pastor of the Lihue Congregational Church, in his desire to preserve the ruins of a heiau and a sacred Hawaiian place of refuge at Wailua, made a ...

Several nods to consumers and the developer community exist throughout Android’s history. One of the longest-running gags is the venerable Android Easter egg. The hidden feature in the OS, only ...

The tiny, uninhabited islet of Prickly Pear East, just north of Anguilla in the Caribbean, doesn’t scream Love Island. There are no cocktails and no sunsets for two. Yet, for one of the region’s most ...