How the dubious tradition of song-sharking led to a strangely beautiful repository of folk art ...

An exhibition at the Getty Center shows that the painting's pigment faded over many years, creating the hue that art lovers ...

Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea ...

And first-century Celtic druids apparently used mistletoe to make a sacred fertility elixir—one historic use that presaged ...

Revealed by melting snow in the Alps, the imprints in rock were left by reptiles and amphibians during the Permian period, which ended with the world’s largest mass extinction ...

In the young, tiny nation, inventive chefs are putting their own twists on classic regional dishes, using river trout, ...

Survivors of the whale attack drifted at sea for months, succumbing to starvation, dehydration—and even cannibalism ...

As Forbes ’ Leslie Katz reports, Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic Church, encouraged the Fabbrica di San Pietro ...

The marble slab, which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E., is the oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Commandments.

Patients, Pioneers, Artists" spotlights the women who influenced the Austrian neurologist—and the field of psychoanalysis ...

Cue the panda cam: The Zoo’s two newest residents, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will make their debut in January Lonnie G. Bunch III ...

The giant spinning turbines are basically bird death traps - and often they cut through prime flying space making the carnage ...