Pan de Muerto, a Mexican sweet bread eaten for Día de los Muertos, is more than just a festive treat. Its history mirrors the ...

A new exhibition at the Vatican Museums highlights a century of collaboration with Mercedes-Benz, showcasing eight papal ...

Since it was first published in October 1726, the novel purporting to tell the fantastical travel tales of Captain Lemuel ...

Confined to hidden sinkhole lakes in the Panhandle, the Florida threadleaf sundew is both a discovery and a warning bell for ...

Two nearly complete fossilized skeletons of the strange new species were found in southwestern China. Scientists suspect its ...

Paleontologists have long argued over whether some small tyrannosaur skeletons belonged to a new genus, called Nanotyrannus, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 19 "superbugs" that currently pose a threat to human health in ...

Luke Bowles is a science writer and master’s student in biology at the University of Missouri. His work focuses on the niche ...

Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, thought in images, as this clip from his early 1960s piece "Cat and Mouse" exemplifies.

Related to rabbits and hares and adapted to high-elevation habitat, the American pika faces a bleak future as temperatures ...

A century after A.A. Milne first published his classic children's tales, British admirers and royal emissaries have made a ...

What started with an impromptu introduction when his dad took a curious son on a detour of discovery culminates now as he ...