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Victorians seduced their sweeties with "love tokens"
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No other country on Earth has lost a greater proportion of land mammals over the last two centuries; now, a new study zeros in on the cause
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Ornithologists are tracking the second major snowy owl southern migration in as many years, indicating that the birds’ numbers are still going strong
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In a few years, shepherds might be monitoring their flocks with networks of wireless sensors
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One new technique for green building—making houses out of straw—actually draws on century-old ideas
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Watch as UC Berkeley’s bells play the earth’s “natural frequencies”
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A group of criminal justice reformers find 700 more lynchings in the segregated South than previously recorded
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An archivist in England stumbled upon a 715-year-old edition of the charter credited for initiating a new framework of governance
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The famed ratio, which shows up in art, architecture and nature, can also be found in space
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Our ability to eat bitter plants help distinguish us from our ancestors and chimpanzees today
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Data gathered by the European Space Agency’s Planck telescope indicates that the universe was dark for about 550 million years after the big bang
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The social network’s worldwide reach is leading to some serious confusion
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A Gauguin painting broke the price record this week, selling for nearly $300 million
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Humans aren’t the only primates capable of learning new “words” for the same object
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The loan of over 10,000 documents from the Civil Rights icon’s personal life reveals her complexity and inner struggles—as well as one solid pancake recipe
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The ground-dwelling chicks are pestered by invasive ants spraying acid
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Women didn’t take their preventative medications, even those proven to work, for fear of side effects
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