Rebecca Felton was sworn in on this day, and despite her short time in power, her legacy reveals deep contradictions in ...

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

The artist's “L’empire des lumières” sold for a massive $121 million, and experts hope the large number could be a sign of ...

The copy of "Harmonia Macrocosmica" dates back to the 17th century and includes ancient theories of the universe ...

The newly described species of sea slug dwells in darkness in the ocean’s midnight zone, using a hood to capture prey with a ...

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

The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...

Obesity leads to DNA alterations that affect gene activity and linger after weight loss, a finding that researchers say could ...

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

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, ...

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