Smithsonian museums in the Washington, D.C. area as well as the National Zoo will open at noon Monday, due to inclement weather
Ambient heat produced by a city's buildings and cars often gets lifted into the jet stream and affects temperatures in places thousands of miles away
How the New Yorker and the West Wing botched the history of the icon
To test the reaches of laser communication, NASA beamed a digital image of Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait to a satellite orbiting the moon
Sampling should be done late this evening, with scientific sampling of the subglacial waters beginning immediately
A new study suggests that lightning alone—even without the other elements of a thunderstorm—might trigger migraines
Follow in the footsteps of Mr. Darcy and the Bennet sisters and take in the manors and gardens of rural England
In the 1980s and 90s, there we some really cheesy depictions of ordering food online
An 8-year old boy; a group of stranded divers; a celebrity's husband: Just a few of the recent victims of Komodo dragon attacks
With its clean public parks, brewpubs, museums and tapas bars, Quito is a fine place to spend a week recovering from an injury
A new study shows the tiny feces ball-rolling insects orient themselves by the stars
We see it on the President's lectern and in the Oval Office, but who came up with the look and feel of it in the first place?
A new study shows that dispersing minerals into oceans to stem climate change would be an inefficient and impractical process
As cities like New York prepare for what appears to be a future of more extreme weather, the focus increasingly is on following nature's lead
Artist and MIT professor Erik Demaine makes flat geometric diagrams spring into elegant, three-dimensional origami sculptures
The author leaves Peru behind and crosses into Ecuador, where he encounters his first sign of a mosquito
According to a new study, they're also much more likely to lie about their findings as they climb the academic ladder
Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if here sister hadn't gotten there first
Eleven live otters turned up in a scanned bagged that someone had abandoned at the oversized luggage area of Bangkok's airport
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