After treks to Africa, Scandinavia and Japan, Puryear’s works go on display at the Smithsonian, where he first developed his curiosity for world cultures
Researchers aim to identify truly "water stressed" areas and help policy-makers better plan for the future
A new model finds that the health benefits of outdoor exercise can outweigh the hazards of air pollution.
Although Gore Vidal’s book never became a hit on Broadway, the novel helped create the public personae of Alexander Hamilton’s nemesis
Delightfully whimsical, the sculptures drive home the message that there’s a whole lot of trash washing ashore
After being snatched by an intern in the mid 1970s, the missive written by the scientist returns to Washington
It's hard to look, and hard to look away, at this unique, and medically valuable, collection of wax blisters, hives and sores
Much more abstract than seconds, minutes and hours, time in the hands of artists becomes even more perplexing
The device is so easy to use, researchers are asking for a “squidpop blitz” for World Oceans Day
Three generations and more than 100 years later, the company is still flying high
An NBA expert has interviewed over 150 people in a quest to track down the ball used in Wilt Chamberlain's 1962 100-point game
The American History Museum and the Supreme Court Historical Society brought the justices together to share tales from the highest court
At Camp Bacon, a thinking person’s antidote to excess, historians, filmmakers and chefs gather to pay homage to the hog and its culinary renown
A rich cache of fossils in Colorado is valuable not for the big dino bones but the relatively tiny fossils that are still being dug up.
Species have come up with a variety of ways to protect themselves from the sun
Journalist Virginia Heffernan makes a compelling case that it is in a new book
A new telescope built from water tanks might help answer some of the biggest questions in astronomy
In the wilderness of Wyoming, there's a magnificent pillar of ancient lava so unique, that even geologists are at odds on exactly how it was formed
In this episode of Generation Anthropocene, tracking trash and why there's so much garbage on the moon.
Three decades after it premiered, the coming-of-age film remains a classic
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