Pliny the Elder’s lifework, the Natural History, was a colossal monument to his insatiable inquisitiveness: thirty-seven volumes, crammed with facts strip-mined from some two thousand works, covering ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion ...

An immersive new exhibition in Australia uses artifacts, sounds and projections to recreate the ancient Roman city ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

They say variety is the spice of life, so this week we’re mixing it up and exploring three local companies offering spices and tea blends in various configurations. For Maggie de Vera, ice cream ...

Researchers have long known that islands are hotspots for species diversity. But, until recently, there weren't precise ...

A Yale study reveals that elevated marine iodine concentrations disrupted the stabilization of Earth’s ozone layer, delaying ...

Computer models developed by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the ...

The Swedish naturalist Carl Linné (1707-1778), better known by his Latinized name Carl Linnaeus, and later knighted as Carl ...

Natural product synthesis aims to prepare a complex target molecule such that the product is analytically identical to the naturally occurring compound, termed a natural product. It is used for ...

Explore the age of the dinosaurs. Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Non ...