The author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and recipient of a Smithsonian award, discusses why in education art matters as much as science
Though its namesake died last year, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater is still hosting performances for audiences of all ages
A lensed galaxy and a mission to manipulate a space rock feature among our picks for this week's best space images
Photographer Margaret Morton traveled to the remote corners of the Central Asian nation to document its city-like ancestral cemeteries
The good news is that an eruption there is highly unlikely, but the bad news is that it would be huge
Plucking hair could be a counterintuitive way to fight balding, according to a study of quorum sensing in rat follicles
Frankenstein, famine poetry, polar exploration—the "year without a summer" was just the beginning
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
"I have too great a soul to die like a criminal," Booth once wrote
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
What happened on that fateful Good Friday evening
But solving one puzzle of lunar origins has raised another linked to the abundances of tungsten in the primordial bodies
A device that tracks blood sugar and automatically administers insulin and glucagon could take some pressure off Type 1 diabetes patients and their parents
Why the Greek monster stares out from an ancient cistern in Istanbul
A new amphibian lab in Panama will help researchers to return charismatic golden frogs to the wild
To commemorate National Beer Day, throw back a cold one for history
Musicians including Cassandra Wilson pay homage to the jazz legend with new albums for Lady Day's 100th birthday
A look to the hoppy brew’s past brings us to the revolution in craft beer today
The popular name could be pulled back out of the scientific wastebasket, based on new analysis of dozens of related dinosaurs
The winning design will memorialize two ancient Buddha statues demolished in 2001
It seems that every time herpetologists wander into the Andean cloud forests, they emerge with colorful lizard species in tow
Before he became a major leaguer, Robinson spent a formative year in the more hospitable environs of Canada
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