“Na⁺-NQR has long been a bit of a puzzle for researchers, because certain parts of the enzyme appeared to be too far apart to ...

Sorting stuffed animals . Moving is an excellent opportunity to sort through belongings you haven't seen or used in a while, such as stuffed animals your child may have outgrown.

I grew up in a relatively rural part of southern Maine. While I myself wasn’t raised on a farm, there were plenty of them ...

A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing ...

Art typically seems like a human activity, tied to culture, symbols, and personal expression. Yet a small group of animals has created paintings and designs that sold for surprising sums. Their work ...

By transforming movement into data, Timothy Dunn is reshaping how scientists can study behavior and the brain.

California just made history. On Feb. 12, the Fish and Game Commission finally voted to protect our mountain lions under the state’s Endangered Species Act. At In Defense of Animals, the ...

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art unites 50 of the artist’s works, all of the human head and ‘not made for the market’ ...

Kimberly Bradley is an arts writer who staves off winter doldrums by running long distances or obsessively knitting.

Fairy wrens are everywhere. Go anywhere in Australia and there will be at least one local fairy wren. They're not endangered. In fact, it would be hard to imagine an animal less endangered than fairy ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...