The taxidermied body of the last captive passenger pigeon, named passengar pigeon, is in the care of the Smithsonian ...

Cape Town residents queue to collect drinking water from a mountain spring collection point last month. Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA. When Doctor Anthony Turton, a South African-bor ...

Families can catch Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day at Brooklyn Borough Hall, the switch-on of the new lights at the ...

UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology will gather on Oct. 26 to honor its finest educators, researchers and servant-scholars at its inaugural Faculty Awards ceremony — a celebration recognizing the ...

Solar farms aren't just good at reducing our reliance on non-renewable energy, they can have a lot of secondary effects that ...

The 29th annual Austin Museum Day (AMD) is this Sunday, Sept. 20. According to its website, AMD is a "free celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, and science." ...

The ocean's aphotic zone—the dark, high-pressure region below the surface, where sunlight cannot reach—is home to a vast ...

Evolutionary psychologist Peter Gray stresses the importance of play and asks if the answer to the youth mental health crisis ...

New research from the University of Aberdeen and Edinburgh Napier University has found that simple changes to the timing of conservation measures on farmland could significantly improve protection for ...

And there will be a host of hands-on activities presented by local clubs, organizations and businesses, including the MJC ...