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The cemetery at St. Philomena’s church in Kalaupapa

Should a Colony Where Leprosy Patients Were Once Exiled Become a Tourist Destination?

The discussion gets sticky with concerns over how to respect the largely Native Hawaiian residents past and present

The Independent Bookstore Is Not Dead Yet

Membership in the American Booksellers Association is up

A female Saiga antelope grazing in Russia’s Black Earth Nature Reserve

Half of the World’s Saiga Antelopes Are Dead From a Mysterious Disease

The already endangered antelope started dying in the thousands this month

A man cools off using a water pipe at a train station in Allahabad, India.

A Heat Wave Has Killed Over 1,100 People in India

Scorching temperatures are having a disproportionate affect on the poor

A Volcano In the Galapagos Islands Is Threatening Precious Species

Pink iguanas, marine life could be harmed by lava flows on Isabela Island

Today’s Google Doodle Honors Sally Ride

Five animations show the first American woman astronaut's sense of fun

A guard patrolling the ruins of Nimrud in 1995

Cyber-archeology May be the Way to Remember Artifacts Destroyed by Militants

Digitally saving 3D models is the only way to offset some lost cultural artifacts

A Beginner's Guide to the Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Cleanup efforts are underway at Refugio State Beach after more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil spilled

21,000 Gallons of Oil Just Spilled Near Santa Barbara

An underwater pipeline was the culprit for a crude oil spill in the Pacific

Detail from The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes gathered by John Gerarde, purportedly depicting Shakespeare.

Is This a Portrait of Shakespeare? One Historian Says Yes, Many Say No

Many experts doubt whether the engraving found in a 400-year old book is actually the Bard himself

The Atlas V rocket launches the X-37B on a 2012 mission. The craft will launch again Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A Mysterious Space Plane Will Launch This Week

Though much of the X-37B's mission is top secret, details are emerging about experiments that will go into orbit with the unmanned craft

Science on a Shoestring: How Cuba’s Researchers Survived the Embargo

Will normalized U.S.-Cuban relations make science easier in the once-isolated country?

A Recall Has Led to a Black Market for Blue Bell Ice Cream

Ice cream fans are rushing to cash in on a cult favorite

Malaysia Airlines Search Team Finds Sunken Ship Instead

Still no sign of the missing Flight 370.

Stop Calling it Bird Flu: World Health Organization Calls for More Care in Naming Diseases

New naming guidelines issued to avoid stigmatizing communities.

Happy Birthday to Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth's Inner Core

Pioneering geologist used earthquakes to unravel the mystory of the Earth’s core

In Three Years the Freedom Tower Will no Longer be America's Tallest Building

New York's Nordstrom Tower will be 1,795 feet tall

"Women of Algiers (Version O)" by Pablo Picasso before it went on sale at Christie's auction house in New York City

Picasso Painting Breaks Auction Record by $37 Million

"Women of Algiers (Version O)" fetched nearly $180 million

Local residents stand outside of buildings in the streets after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 12, 2015.

Another Big Earthquake Has Hit Nepal

Second major quake hits as the country still struggles to recover from the last one.

Starbucks Moves its Bottled Water Operations Out of California’s Drought

Bottling water in California might not be a great idea, but many companies still do it

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