Scholastic is launching the latest title in its multi-platform series the 39 Clues with some extra multimedia muscle. The publisher is teaming with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

“U-571” took a few shots across the bow this weekend in Hollywood’s latest battle for box-office supremacy. But the nerve-wracking submarine saga that had been America’s top-grossing film still ranks ...

When Robyn Young took a walking tour in Lansdowne, she found out about Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Young, a women’s historian wanted to find out more. Four years ago the Media resident started researching ...

This year is the 20 th anniversary of sequencing the human genome. In honor of this event, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ...

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and author, completed his PhD degree at Jesus College, Oxford. ‘Sapiens’ is the first in a series of his books on the past, present and the future of ...

The coconut (the fruit of the palm Cocos nucifera) is the Swiss Army knife of the plant kingdom; in one neat package it provides a high-calorie food, potable water, fiber that can be spun into rope, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Longhorn cattle have a hybrid global ancestry, according to a study by University of Texas at Austin researchers published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...