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The eruption of Mount Tambora killed thousands, plunged much of the world into a frightful chill and offers lessons for today
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Who built the great megaliths and stone circles of Great Britain, and why? Researchers continue to puzzle and marvel over these age-old questions
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There's no more fitting venue for American initiative and American art than the old Patent Office building
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Dr. John Gorrie found the competition all fired up when he tried to market his ice-making machine
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A pod of dolphins stranded in the Florida Keys reignites an emotional debate over how much human "help" the sea mammals can tolerate
More and more, innovative scientists are turning to the natural world for inspiration...and design solutions
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Questions about the herb's health benefits haven't cooled the red-hot market in wild American ginseng
Both ginseng and dolphins evoke passionate emotions
The invention of a gas-fueled generator the size of a quarter heralds a future of ever-smaller machines
A new exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art tracks the development of seminal photographer Alfred Stieglitz
In celebrating the cultures of the ancient Silk Road, renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has found a second calling
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Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some
Graham Greene's letters to his paramour, Catherine Walston, trace the hazy line between life and fiction
A half century ago, the first jet airliner delighted passengers with swift, smooth flights until a fatal structural flaw doomed its glory
For 200 years in Ipswich, it sheltered all manner of Americans; now it informs and delights them
Once thought to have vanished from North America victims of hunting and habitat loss the cats maintain a slender pawhold in the thickets of South Texas
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Startling evidence that the human brain can grow new nerves began with unlikely studies of birdsong
Beyond the war zone, Mount Sinai remains a refuge in a landscape of strife
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