After volunteering at a rescue project, one stray’s fate still haunts the author – prompting questions about what ‘doing good ...

Forget wholesale memberships and fluorescent lighting—Artists & Fleas Market in Williamsburg is the shopping experience that has New Yorkers ditching their big-box loyalty cards faster than you can ...

The striking crimson exterior with bold lettering serves as a beacon for the treasure-seeking shopper, standing out among ...

Now, researchers believe a sheep may hold the answer. An international team of scientists has discovered the first known ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

From 1346 to 1353, and occasionally thereafter, the Bubonic Plague ravaged Europe, killing up to 50 million people. Spread ...

For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

Bears! Bears! You switch on the news and it’s nothing but bears! What about monkeys?” What’s the scourge of preference? The warpath widens, the enemies list lengthens, the human enemy an old story, ...