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Seven-year-old Electra delivered kittens marking the first time the endangered fishing cats have successfully bred and produced young at the National Zoo
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A new nano-technology can be applied to metals and causes ice and frost to slide off before they have a chance to stick
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What ever happened to the Starport, the brainchild of Jim Starry that re-imagined the airport?
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The spaghetti-slinging robot drew crowds at Grazie’s Italian Restaurant in Tokyo
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The keepers of sheep and cows helped eliminate the Pyrenean brown bear, and shepherds are not thrilled to see France's largest predator return
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Paleontologists are describing new dinosaurs at an unprecedented pace, but there's much we still don't know about the biology of these animals
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The Hubble Space Telescope shows that we're on a collision course with the nearby Andromeda galaxy—and set to crash in about 4 billion years
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Was it Bermuda—or the dreamy French Polynesian island of Huahine—that inspired the setting for Shakespeare's The Tempest?
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This week, take a tour of the Old Patent Office Building, learn about renewable energy sources, and paint with Mayan artist Ubaldo Sánchez
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Where do Mayor Michael Bloomberg's statistics come from? People underestimate junk food and overestimate healthy food in dietary surveys
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Where and when did humans domesticate dogs, pigs, cows and other animals?
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Paleontologists Lee Hall and Ashley Fragomeni show us what a perfect paleo-themed engagement looks like
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In Facebook world, you'd think there wouldn't be much of a future for nonfiction storytelling. But several startups are trying to keep the narrative alive
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In 1912, a family of six was murdered by ax in the little town of Villisca, Iowa. Might these killings be linked to nine other similar crimes?
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A history of caricatures exposes the inside jokes
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How Hollywood portrays musicians—rock, jazz and country—as they tour
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Is it time to stop calling sickle-clawed dinosaurs "raptors"?
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It's World Oceans Day and here are 10 things scientists know about what's happening under the sea that they didn't a year ago
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