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In Big Sur, California, a library that's not really a library.

The journey of the "Love Tester," from serious-seeming science to the penny-arcade amusements.

What does Valentine's Day have to do with wounding insults, bone relics, and meat juice?

For some species, mating season means detachable penises, urine-based perfumes, and ear-splitting declarations of love.

How, yes, a pig almost started a war between the United States and Britain.

Scientists fitted the famously bitey marsupials with tiny accelerometers to learn their secrets.

An Italian naturalist and guide has turned beach trash and memory into a commentary on our age.

The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.

The roadside attraction is thought to be the first enormous concrete dino in North America.

Inside the two-decade-long effort to restore the mansion’s colorful frescos.

Was Charles Hatfield a scientist or a con man?

More than 200 enslaved people perished when the Portuguese ship sank in 1794.

In Pennsylvania Dutch Country, African Americans have created a distinct and delicious cuisine.

An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.

At the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Lab in Corvallis, massive simulators allow researchers to test innovative ideas about sustainable energy, saving coastlines, and more.

In Ireland, fears about disturbing the fair folk have saved thousands of these mysterious ancient structures.