Buttercup's adorable plight, which concluded on Sunday when engineers successfully outfitted the duck with a 3D printed duck foot
Vanity prosthetic legs aren't new - but this is probably the first one built out of LEGOS
Check out today's events at the Folklife Festival, including African-inspired fashion, Bácska cuisine and folk-jazz with Dresch and Lukács
Houston has a healthy allowance for beautifying its streets and parks. See how it spends it
Staph microbes with resistance to common treatments are much more common in industrial farms than antibiotic-free operations
Bats have been pinpointed as the most likely culprits behind MERS, though camels are a close second
A new album on Smithsonian Folkways Records captures the effort to sustain a fading musical tradition
These contact lenses can switch your vision back and forth from regular sight to a 2.8x zoom
Obama's plan will specifically address poaching of elephants and rhinos, though he has also reportedly begun conversations with China about curbing demand
Though its roots are in India, American yoga is a whole different thing
The evolution of the baseball bat, and a few unusual mutations
The roboticists behind RoboCup want their team of bots to beat the World Cup champions on a level playing field by 2050
Just posting calorie counts isn't very effective. What may work, though, is framing overeating in terms everyone understands
The Welsh language is spoken by few, but people like Gwyneth Glyn, a Welsh folk musician, are helping to revitalize it and renew interest in the culture
Software engineer Alexey Papulovskiy has built Contrailz, a site that generates visuals of flight data over cities around the world
Three hundred and fifteen years ago today James Savery's patented the steam engine
After the exhibition concludes, the ice will be relinquished to its original fate - a melted puddle
Forty countries that receive low levels of aid for environmental conservation contain about one-third of the world's threatened species
For 29 years, Cirque du Soleil had defied death, never seeing a performer die on the job. Until this past weekend
Plant impressions found underneath a pair of ancient humans in Israel indicate they were buried ceremonially, atop a bed of flowers
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