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With white suit and glider, Putin sought to lead a flock of Siberian cranes
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A new study found football players were nearly four times more likely to have died from Alzheimer's disease or Lou Gehrig's disease
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News that about 80 percent of our DNA is functional might surprise some, but won't surprise geneticists
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Why those cute stuffed animals always slip through your mechanical robot fingers
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Estonia is implementing a new curriculum that will teach 100 percent of its publicly educated students to write code
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Soldiers are adding a new makeup to their war wardrobe that protects them from bomb blast burns
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There may be 70 million people tracking their family members through GPS-enabled phones in 2016
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Up to 10,000 people who stayed in Yosemite National Park between June and August may have been exposed to a deadly, mouse-borne hantavirus
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Sixty years ago, John Cage put on a performance of a piece called 4'33" or "four minutes, thirty-three seconds." Today would have been his birthday
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In 1955, scientists dropped nukes on beer and soda to see how they held up
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In some parts of rural India the practice of witch hunts is still in vogue, but local women aim to stop it
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Using Curiosity's left and right navigation cameras, NASA produced a 3D panorama of the Martian surface
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A new ant species joins a menagerie of other creatures cut off from their kind in isolated patches of urban green in NYC
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An excess of dead wood in Canada has designers thinking big
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Does sleeping through physics - or math class for that matter - really make a difference to your life?
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A cat named Venus is perhaps the most famous feline on the planet thanks to her unique markings
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Before-and-after audio records show how ecosystems change
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Silent Spring turns 50 this month, but Rachel Carson's ecological game-changer was not always the beloved green bible it is today
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Photographer TIm Tadder's "Water Wigs" makes a splash in this collection of unique images
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A kindergarten program seeks to teach children a small community's native language
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