Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Grab your best lawn chair, escape the city lights and dust off the old telescope -- several impressive astronomical events ...

Research on ancient footprints in Kenya demonstrates coexistence of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei 1.5 million years ...

Stripped of leaves and charred by the explosion, these trees sprang back to life within months ... a 1,400-year-old ginkgo tree stands near Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, its golden leaves carpeting ...

A mysterious ancient seed that was found during archaeological excavations of a cave near Jerusalem has grown into a tree that may be the source of a medicinal balm mentioned in the Bible. After ...

Old money names have an aura of aristocracy and sophistication. These names have stood the test of time and thrived as ...

Here are Parade’s 101 Best Young Adult books of all time, according to indie booksellers; acclaimed authors like Suzanne ...

Taken unawares in his quiet Oxfordshire cottage, he is visited not by a person from Porlock, but by something quite the reverse: an idea so urgent and striking that it upturns his life and inspires ..

To learn more about these rocks, the study authors mapped a region of 19,300 square miles (50,000 square kilometers) using data from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA ...

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

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FRIENDS and family of a Celtic fan who lost his life this week are urging the club to hold a minute's applause in his honour. David McCusker, known as Tucker or Davie, was a lifelong Hoops fan and ...