An exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens explores how Western intellectuals viewed the ...

From the microwave to the food processor, the book author and television personality tried many appliances and devices to ...

A new analysis suggests that the piece was created by several artists working in the Italian Renaissance painter's studio—and ...

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, tiny molecules that play a crucial role in how cells develop, paving the ...

A recurrent nova, known as the Blaze Star or T Coronae Borealis, is predicted to soon appear in the night sky. But the exact ...

On the island of Laeso in Denmark, one man is reviving the lost art of eelgrass thatching and, in doing so, bringing ...

The team at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy needs to transport Kinani, a blind male elephant, to a 4,000-acre compound where he'll ...

In the wild, titanoboa probably ate large crocodiles, fish and other snakes—but if there were a titanoboa at the National Zoo ...

As the dams begin to come down, the National Park Service looks back at the region’s history and prepares for the welcome ...

Researchers still don't know what the open-mouth facial expression means or whether it's akin to smiling in humans—but ...

SNAP, by Cleveland-based company Surgical Theater, gives surgeons a three-dimensional view of their patients. (Credit: ...

The award winning author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times discusses how the natural world ...