Some of these naturalists were murdered by people in the regions they were working. Others died of diseases or lost their lives to their research subjects
Meet the scientist behind the Mars rover, learn the civil war's influence on contemporary art and watch films by European media collective Flatland
The smog-filled valley recently hosted NASA planes that tested air quality to help calibrate future satellite efforts to measure air pollution
The creation of DST is usually credited to George Vernon Hudson, but 100 years earlier, Benjamin Franklin pondered a similar question
40 bucks in cash, a warm sleeping bag and plenty of wine carry the author through his final days in Ecuador, in the remote high country outside of Quito
In 1820, one of Britain's most notorious criminals hatched a plan to rescue the emperor from exile on the Atlantic isle of St Helena -- but did he try it?
More and more scientific research is showing that sleep is more important to our state of mind--and body--than we ever could have imagined
Deep channels, buried under lava but now mapped with satellite data, give hints to the planet's violent, wet and recent past
The drug, naturally present in coffee and citrus plant nectars, is shown to improve honeybees' long-term memory
It wasn't a military expert or an aviation pioneer, but a Russian actor who developed the first viable parachute
From a caterpillar to the Milky Way, the ten finalists in the contest's Natural World category capture the peculiar, the remarkable and the sublime
Research shows that cities can cut emissions by 70 percent; check out the ones striving their hardest to curb their carbon appetites
This week, watch Bette Davis in the 1938 hit Jezebel, join performance art that honors African women and listen to one of the world's best pianos
For more than 50 years observations from Hawaii have tracked rising carbon dioxide. We're still ignoring those warnings
Israel battles a swarm of millions of locusts that flew from Egypt that is giving rise to a host of ecological, political and agricultural issues
A new DNA analysis confirms that an ancient skull found in a Siberian cave was an early ancestor of man's best friend
"Every square meter of Mercury's surface" in one gorgeous map
It was a decade of Uggs and excess but also styles meant to further the greater good
Living in the forest alongside bears and beavers, the ancient Canadian Arctic camel
The birds' plumage is even colder than the surrounding air, paradoxically insulating them from heat loss
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