List of All Articles with Tag 'art'

The shape of an animal’s pupils is a clue to its place in the food chain.

“10-4” isn’t any quicker than saying “OK.” But it is a storied trucker tradition.

Kidney transplants my one day get an assist from porcine vessels.

A close look at Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884' reveals much more than a warm portrait of a sunny day in a lovely park.

We debunk myths from the last decade of the 20th century, from fraudulent Furby fears to some misinformation around the era’s most famous trial.

Director John Landis wrote the script for ‘An American Werewolf in London’ when he was just a teenager—but for years, no one wanted to make the movie.

When a truck’s brakes fail, a runaway ramp is sometimes the one thing preventing disaster.

26.2 miles is a long way to go, especially when everyone knows your name.

From turtle mating to what really turns big cats on, animal sex can be a lot weirder (and funnier) than you probably expected.

The words ‘fall’ and ‘autumn’ appeared around the same time in Great Britain, but only one of the seasonal names is still used there today.

Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned from a single adult cell—and raised a lot of questions about the future of human cloning.

The North American parrots vanished mysteriously in the early 20th century. Now scientists are closer to solving their disappearance.